Phrase Hound found 61 phrases and 55 compound words that contain species. The most common are listed below. Open species in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 61
- endangered speciesA species which is in danger of becoming extinct throughout all or a significant portion of its range.
- invasive speciesAny species that has been introduced to an environment where it is not native, and that has since become a nuisance through rapid spread and increase in numbers, often to the detriment of native species.
- native speciesA species that normally lives and thrives in a particular ecosystem. This can include any species that developed with the surrounding habitat, and can be assisted by or affected by a new species.
- Plant species
- New species
- threatened speciesAny species of organism that is vulnerable to extinction in the near future
- Different Species
- type speciesA species which has been designated as typical of a genus, and is chosen as the species according to which the genus is named.
- Animal species
- ring speciesA biological species consisting of overlapping subgroups, each of which can interbreed with the next, but which cannot freely interbreed when taken as a whole
- exotic speciesSynonym of introduced species: A species living outside its native distributional range which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, deliberately or accidentally.
- pioneer speciesA hardy species that is among the first to colonize a previously disrupted or damaged ecosystem.
- alien speciesSynonym of introduced species: A species living outside its native distributional range which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, deliberately or accidentally.
- species nameA scientific name at the rank of species, with two terms: the generic name (or generic epithet, the genus of the species) and the specific name (a term used only in zoology, never in botany, for the second part of a binomial) or the …
- Several species
- chemical speciesAn ensemble of chemically identical molecular entities that can explore the same set of molecular energy levels on the time scale of the experiment.
- Wildlife species
- Human species
- introduced speciesA species living outside its native distributional range which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, deliberately or accidentally.
- Species Richness
- Species composition
- foreign speciesSynonym of introduced species: A species living outside its native distributional range which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, deliberately or accidentally.
- Four SpeciesThe four plant-parts shaken as a unit on Sukkot
- host speciesA species utilised by a brood parasite to raise young.
- species complexA group of closely related species so similar in appearance that the boundaries between them are often unclear.
Compound words 55
- speciesismAn ethical stance that assigns different worth or rights to beings on the basis of their species membership, such as assigning greater rights to human beings than to other animals.
- speciesistA proponent of speciesism.
- ichnospeciesA level of taxonomical classification of trace fossils.
- chronospeciesA group of one or more species derived from a sequential development pattern which involves continual and uniform changes from an extinct ancestral form on an evolutionary scale.
- specioseRich in species, such as when many species are members of a single genus.
- counterspeciesA species in opposition to another.
- genospeciesA species (group of organisms that can interbreed) identified and characterised by means of genetics.
- nothospeciesA hybrid which is formed by direct hybridization of two species, not other hybrids.
- protospeciesA preexisting type of species from which other species evolved.
- coenospeciesEither of a group of related species that are able to form (often fertile) hybrids