All 36 Uses of
species
in
The Host
- I heard she's never lived two terms as the same host species.†
Chpt Prol.species = a similar group of animals or plants
- These human emotions would be stronger, more vital than the feelings of any other species I had been.†
Chpt 1
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- I could describe that species in my new human language.†
Chpt 2
- With my last species' language of thought, it would have been impossible to lie, even had we wanted to.†
Chpt 2
- Who would have the stomach to face the violence of this particular species, the hostile humans who killed so easily, so thoughtlessly?†
Chpt 2
- Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their doorstep.†
Chpt 5
- You murder an entire species and then pat yourselves on the back.†
Chpt 5
- When Fire World was discovered, it was at first thought that the dominant species, the Fire-Tasters, were the only intelligent life-forms present.†
Chpt 7
- Brutality was part of their species.†
Chpt 7
- I'd never thought about how you all carry on your species.†
Chpt 7
- 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.†
Chpt 8
- My point is, he's not your species.†
Chpt 15
- We're fugitives, an endangered species.†
Chpt 16
- 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.†
Chpt 17
- I told him about the Spiders—a fascinating species.†
Chpt 21
- I'd lived out one of the short life terms of the species and then left with no desire to return.†
Chpt 21
- They just move to new hosts in the same species on the same planet when their body gets close to death.†
Chpt 22
- I couldn't anticipate their darker agendas when such things were unthinkable to my species.†
Chpt 23
- ...Of all the different planets you're familiar with, which species is physically the closest to humankind?†
Chpt 25
- How do your Healers get their knowledge about the physiology of a new species?†
Chpt 25
- I mean, as a species, do you know how you evolved?†
Chpt 25
- We were discovered by another species—the Vultures, we call them here, though more for their personalities than for their looks.†
Chpt 25
- 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.†
Chpt 27
- In my species, I am the one that bears young.
Chpt 34 *species = similar group of animals whose members can interbreed
- We don't have such a complicated...elaborate setup as your species.†
Chpt 34species = a similar group of animals or plants
- You know, humans have the shortest life span of any species I've ever been, except the Spiders.†
Chpt 38
- You can keep cutting us out in pieces, but you'll just murder more and more sentient creatures of both species.†
Chpt 41
- This wouldn't have worked with another species.†
Chpt 42
- Other species had their priorities in better order.†
Chpt 42
- The only hope for survival I've ever seen for a host species.†
Chpt 47
- Did other species have such a simple healer?†
Chpt 50
- Sunny, however, seemed to embody the essence of my gentle, timid species; we were powerful only in great numbers.†
Chpt 55
- You're not of my species.†
Chpt 56
- Every bit as weird as switching species.†
Chpt 59
- This was my first rebirth into a body of the same species.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
a group of animals or plants that are similar -- typically identified as belonging to the same group when they are of a kind that can reproduce new members of the group together