Genius vs. Species

Geniusnoun

(eulogistic) Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.

Speciesnoun

Type or kind. race.}}

‘the male species, a new species of war’;

Geniusnoun

Extraordinary mental capacity.

Speciesnoun

A group of plants or animals having similar appearance.

‘This species of animal is unique to the area.’;

Geniusnoun

Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.

‘a work of genius.’;

Speciesnoun

(taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below genus and above subspecies; a taxon at that rank.

Geniusnoun

(Roman mythology) The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.

Speciesnoun

(mineralogy) A mineral with a unique chemical formula whose crystals belong to a unique crystallographic system.

Geniusadjective

(informal) ingenious, very clever, or original.

‘What a genius idea!’;

Speciesnoun

An image, an appearance, a spectacle.

Geniusnoun

A good or evil spirit, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man's destiny in life; a tutelary deity; a supernatural being; a spirit, good or bad. Cf. Jinnee.

‘The unseen genius of the wood.’; ‘We talk of genius still, but with thought how changed! The genius of Augustus was a tutelary demon, to be sworn by and to receive offerings on an altar as a deity.’;

Speciesnoun

(obsolete) The image of something cast on a surface, or reflected from a surface, or refracted through a lens or telescope; a reflection.

‘I cast the species of the Sun onto a sheet of paper through a telescope.’;

Geniusnoun

The peculiar structure of mind with which each individual is endowed by nature; that disposition or aptitude of mind which is peculiar to each man, and which qualifies him for certain kinds of action or special success in any pursuit; special taste, inclination, or disposition; as, a genius for history, for poetry, or painting.

Speciesnoun

Visible or perceptible presentation; appearance; something perceived.

Geniusnoun

Peculiar character; animating spirit, as of a nation, a religion, a language.

Speciesnoun

A public spectacle or exhibition.

Geniusnoun

Distinguished mental superiority; uncommon intellectual power; especially, superior power of invention or origination of any kind, or of forming new combinations; as, a man of genius.

‘Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.’;

Speciesnoun

(Christianity) Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.

Geniusnoun

A man endowed with uncommon vigor of mind; a man of superior intellectual faculties and creativity; as, Shakespeare was a rare genius.

Speciesnoun

Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.

Geniusnoun

someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality;

‘Mozart was a child genius’; ‘he's smart but he's no Einstein’;

Speciesnoun

A component part of compound medicine; a simple.

Geniusnoun

unusual mental ability

Speciesnoun

An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; especially, one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.

Geniusnoun

someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

Species

Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.

‘Wit, . . . the faculty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to represent.’;

Geniusnoun

exceptional creative ability

Species

A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer individuals. Thus, man is a species, under animal as a genus; and man, in its turn, may be regarded as a genus with respect to European, American, or the like, as species.

Geniusnoun

a natural talent;

‘he has a flair for mathematics’; ‘he has a genius for interior decorating’;

Species

In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.

Genius

A genius is a person who displays exceptional intellectual ability, creative productivity, universality in genres, or originality, typically to a degree that is associated with the achievement of new discoveries or advances in a domain of knowledge. Geniuses may be polymaths who excel across many diverse subjects or may show high achievements in only a single kind of activity.There is no scientifically precise definition of a genius.

Species

A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth.

Species

Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.

‘There was, in the splendor of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.’;

Species

A public spectacle or exhibition.

Species

A component part of a compound medicine; a simple.

Species

The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure.

Speciesnoun

(biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed

Speciesnoun

a specific kind of something;

‘a species of molecule’; ‘a species of villainy’;

Speciesnoun

a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding. The species is the principal natural taxonomic unit, ranking below a genus and denoted by a Latin binomial, e.g. Homo sapiens.

Speciesnoun

a group subordinate to a genus and containing individuals agreeing in some common attributes and called by a common name.

Speciesnoun

a kind or sort

‘a species of invective at once tough and suave’;

Speciesnoun

used humorously to refer to people who share a characteristic or occupation

‘a political species that is becoming more common, the environmental statesman’;

Speciesnoun

a particular kind of atom, molecule, ion, or particle

‘a new molecular species’;

Speciesnoun

the visible form of each of the elements of consecrated bread and wine in the Eucharist.

Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.