All 14 Uses of
species
in
The History of Love
- Being the only known complex life-form to do this, she should have a species named after her.†
- Since the earliest life on earth, there have been somewhere between five and fifty billion species, only five to fifty million of which are alive today.†
- So, ninety-nine percent of all the species that have ever lived on earth are extinct.†
- ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life.†
- But the truth was that he was no more like the man fighting a fever in the bed ten feet away than he was like the cat that had just slunk off: they were different species.†
- I went online for a picture of a Russian butterfly, but instead I found an article reporting that most butterfly species had declined in numbers over the last two decades, and that their extinction rate was about 10,000 times higher than it should be.†
- It also said that an average of seventy-four species of insects, plants, and animals become extinct every day.
*species = a similar group of animals or plants
- One out of eight species of birds will soon be extinct.†
- Before that was the Triassic extinction (also caused by an asteroid, or possibly volcanoes), which wiped out up to ninety-five percent of the species, and before that was the Late Devonian extinction.†
- If things go on like this, half of all species on earth will be gone in a hundred years.†
- My mother, her own species, dropped a flower into a hole and started to fill it with dirt.†
- THE LONGING THAT EXISTS BETWEEN SPECIES After Uncle Julian left, my mother became more withdrawn, or maybe a better word would be obscure, as in faint, unclear, distant.†
- During the time I waited, a whole species of butterfly may have become extinct, or a large, complex mammal with feelings like mine.†
- When I got to the part about how he was found by some Bedouins, Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand, and the next thing that happened was we kissed each other, and I found I knew how, and I felt happy and sad in equal parts, because I knew that I was falling in love, but it wasn't with him.†
Definition:
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(species) 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