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Definition
a group of animals or plants that are similar — typically identified as a group because they can procreate together (reproduce new members of the group)
- In my species, I am the one that bears young.Chapter 34 (9% in)
species = similar group of animals whose members can interbreed
- I heard she's never lived two terms as the same host species.Prologue (46% in)
- These human emotions would be stronger, more vital than the feelings of any other species I had been.Chapter 1 (14% in)
- Could they be true, the whispered rumors that had undulated like waves through the thoughts of the... of the... I was distracted, trying to find the name for my last host species.Chapter 2 (53% in)
- I could describe that species in my new human language.Chapter 2 (55% in)
- With my last species' language of thought, it would have been impossible to lie, even had we wanted to.Chapter 2 (62% in)
- Who would have the stomach to face the violence of this particular species, the hostile humans who killed so easily, so thoughtlessly?Chapter 2 (73% in)
- Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their doorstep.Chapter 5 (87% in)
- You murder an entire species and then pat yourselves on the back.Chapter 5 (90% in)
- When Fire World was discovered, it was at first thought that the dominant species, the Fire-Tasters, were the only intelligent life-forms present.Chapter 7 (9% in)
- Brutality was part of their species.Chapter 7 (44% in)
- I'd never thought about how you all carry on your species.Chapter 7 (95% in)
- A highly developed species, and certainly mobile, but after my long stay with the See Weeds, the thought of another water planet was repugnant to me.Chapter 8 (14% in)
- My point is, he's not your species.Chapter 15 (68% in)
- We're fugitives, an endangered species.Chapter 16 (37% in)
- I listened to his apologetic words in wonder; this was so much more kindness than I'd hoped for, more compassion than I'd thought this species was capable of giving their enemies.Chapter 17 (31% in)
- I told him about the Spiders–a fascinating species.Chapter 21 (69% in)
- I'd lived out one of the short life terms of the species and then left with no desire to return.Chapter 21 (73% in)
- They just move to new hosts in the same species on the same planet when their body gets close to death.Chapter 22 (66% in)
- I couldn't anticipate their darker agendas when such things were unthinkable to my species.Chapter 23 (28% in)
- ... Of all the different planets you're familiar with, which species is physically the closest to humankind?Chapter 25 (58% in)
- How do your Healers get their knowledge about the physiology of a new species?Chapter 25 (70% in)
- I mean, as a species, do you know how you evolved?Chapter 25 (73% in)
- We were discovered by another species–the Vultures, we call them here, though more for their personalities than for their looks.Chapter 25 (79% in)
- You've given up on your species entirely, you're ready to die for my brother, you're in love with the man I love who is going to kill us, and yet you won't let go of customs that are entirely impractical here.Chapter 27 (42% in)
- We don't have such a complicated... elaborate setup as your species.Chapter 34 (13% in)
- You know, humans have the shortest life span of any species I've ever been, except the Spiders.Chapter 38 (47% in)
- You can keep cutting us out in pieces, but you'll just murder more and more sentient creatures of both species.Chapter 41 (28% in)
- This wouldn't have worked with another species.Chapter 42 (7% in)
- Other species had their priorities in better order.Chapter 42 (8% in)
- The only hope for survival I've ever seen for a host species.Chapter 47 (66% in)
- Did other species have such a simple healer?Chapter 50 (55% in)
- Sunny, however, seemed to embody the essence of my gentle, timid species; we were powerful only in great numbers.Chapter 55 (30% in)
- You're not of my species.Chapter 56 (79% in)
- Every bit as weird as switching species.Chapter 59 (88% in)
- This was my first rebirth into a body of the same species.Epilogue (1% in)
There are no more uses of "species" in The Host.
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