All 4 Uses of
species
in
The Hidden Oracle
- Yes and no. The snake species is named after Python the monster, who is also rather snaky, but who is much bigger and scarier and devours small girls who talk too much.†
p. 99.8 *species = a similar group of animals or plants
- If I want to change shape, or age, or gender, or species, I simply wish it to happen and—ka-bam!†
p. 138.6
- The way I heard it, he got upset with some greedy man who was always stealing from his neighbors' crops, so Zeus turned him into the first ant—a species that does nothing but scavenge, steal, and breed.†
p. 227.8
- Ares liked to joke that if Zeus wanted such a species, he could've just left humans the way they were.†
p. 227.9
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