Both Uses of
species
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
- The couple cruised the neighborhood with the air of an entirely novel species—as if they were the first couple in New Hampshire to have given birth.†
p. 183.2 *species = a similar group of animals or plants
- Disputed encounters with nature are also popular; my days here are most enjoyably spent in identifying species of bird and mammal and fish and reptile and, unfortunately, insect—almost none of which is well known to me.†
p. 428.4
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