speciose
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speciose (comparative more speciose, superlative most speciose)
- (taxonomy) Rich in species, such as when many species are members of a single genus.
- Synonym: species-rich
- 1991, David M. Raup, Extinction: Bad genes or bad luck?, W. W. Norton and Company, pp 55-56,
- The most speciose living mammal genus (a small insectivore) has about 160 species.
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rich in species
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- IPA(key): /speˈt͡ʃo.ze/, (traditional) /speˈt͡ʃo.se/[1]
- Rhymes: -oze, (traditional) -ose
- Hyphenation: spe‧ció‧se
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speciose
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- ^ speciose in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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speciōse
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- “speciose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “speciose”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- speciose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.