Speciality vs. Species — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Speciality and Species
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Speciality
A distinguishing mark or feature.
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.
Speciality
Specialities Special points of consideration; particulars.
Species
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.
Speciality
Chiefly British A specialty.
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Species
A kind or sort
A species of invective at once tough and suave
Speciality
Standard form of specialty
They cook well overall, but their true speciality is pasta.
Species
The visible form of each of the elements of consecrated bread and wine in the Eucharist.
Speciality
A particular or peculiar case; a particularity.
Species
(Biology) A group of closely related organisms that are very similar to each other and are usually capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. The species is the fundamental category of taxonomic classification, ranking below a genus or subgenus. Species names are represented in binomial nomenclature by an uncapitalized Latin adjective or noun following a capitalized genus name, as in Ananas comosus, the pineapple, and Equus caballus, the horse.
Speciality
See Specialty, 3.
Species
(Logic) A class of individuals or objects grouped by virtue of their common attributes and assigned a common name; a division subordinate to a genus.
Speciality
The special or peculiar mark or characteristic of a person or thing; that for which a person is specially distinguished; an object of special attention; a special occupation or object of attention; a specialty.
On these two general heads all other specialities are depedent.
Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his speciality.
We 'll say, instead, the inconsequent creature man, -For that'a his speciality.
Think of this, sir, . . . remote from the impulses of passion, and apart from the specialities - if I may use that strong remark - of prejudice.
Species
(Chemistry) A set of atoms, molecules, ions, or other chemical entities that possess the same distinct characteristics with respect to a chemical process or measurement.
Speciality
An attribute or quality peculiar to a species.
Species
A kind, variety, or type
"No species of performing artist is as self-critical as a dancer" (Susan Sontag).
Speciality
An asset of special worth or utility;
Cooking is his forte
Species
The outward appearance or form of the Eucharistic elements that is retained after their consecration.
Speciality
A distinguishing trait
Species
Either of the consecrated elements of the Eucharist.
Speciality
The special line of work you have adopted as your career;
His specialization is gastroenterology
Species
Type or kind. race.}}
The male species
A new species of war
Species
A group of plants or animals having similar appearance.
This species of animal is unique to the area.
Species
A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below genus; a taxon at that rank.
Species
A particular type of atom, molecule, ion or other particle.
Species
(mineralogy) A mineral with a unique chemical formula whose crystals belong to a unique crystallographic system.
Species
An image, an appearance, a spectacle.
Species
(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.
Species
Visible or perceptible presentation; appearance; something perceived.
Species
(Christianity) Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.
Species
Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
Species
A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
Species
Plural of specie
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.
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.
Species
In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.
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.
Species
(biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed
Species
A specific kind of something;
A species of molecule
A species of villainy
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