species

This species of animal is unique to the area.

Hence, in determining whether a form should be ranked as a species or a variety, the opinion of naturalists having sound judgment and wide experience seems the only guide to follow.

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

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.

There was, in the splendour of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.