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The Learning Kingdom's Cool Word of the Day for February 22, 1999
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species [n. SPEE-sheez]
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A species is a classification of life forms that share enough genetic
traits that they can interbreed to produce offspring that are still
able to breed.
In the modern system of scientific names, each species of life is
given a Latin name of two words. The first word is always
capitalized, and the second is not. The first word names the genus, a
larger group that includes one or more species. The second word is
the name of the species itself. For example, all the members of the
human race belong to one species: Homo sapiens.
Like many scientific terms, the word comes down unchanged from Latin,
where species means "a seeing, kind, or form." It's from the ancient
root spek- (to observe), which is also the source of spy, specimen,
spectacle, spectrum, aspect, circumspect, conspicuous, expect,
inspect, perspective, suspect, and despicable.
Today's Cool Fact is about species of life:
http://www.cool-fact.com/archive/1999/02/22.html
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