specieses

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specieses

  1. (rare, nonstandard) plural of species
    • 1774, Lord James Burnett Monboddo, Of the Origin and Progress of Language, page 526:
      [] , and by consequence their language, would at first be confined to the lowest specieses, unless where it happened that the specific differences of such specieses were not so readily to be distinguished.
    • 1897, Lewis Carroll, Symbolic Logic: Part 1, Elementary, page 12:
      A Proposition of Relation, of the kind to be here discussed, has, for its Terms, two Specieses of the same Genus, such that each of the two Names conveys the idea of some Attribute not conveyed by the other.
    • 1942, Francè Veber, There is a God:
      We distinguish in the universe of phenomena two groups, specieses and representatives of specieses. This relation does not depend on the fact, if there is on these specieses and their representatives the question about specieses and ...