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Definition of SPECIES

1

one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic <a music that is now generally regarded as a distinct species of rap>

Synonyms bracket, category, classification, division, family, genus, grade, group, kind, league, order, rank(s), rubric, set, species, tier, type

Related Words description, feather, ilk, kidney, like, manner, nature, sort; branch, section, speciality, specialty, subclass, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, variety; breed, race; generation; heading, label, title

2

a number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common <in the late 1960s there emerged a new species of actor: edgy and not conventionally handsome>

Synonyms breed, class, description, feather, genre, ilk, kidney, kind, like, manner, nature, order, species, strain, stripe, type, variety

Related Words model; sample, specimen; bracket, bunch, category, division, family, grade, group, grouping, lot, persuasion, rank(s), set, suite

3

human beings in general <the future of the species may well depend on our willingness to limit the impact of an ever-increasing population>

Synonyms folks, humanity, humankind, public, species, world

Related Words community, society; crowd, masses, mob, populace, proletariat, rabble, rabblement, riffraff