specie

Example Sentences

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Until recently, the only non-human species of mammals that were known to experience menopause were a select few specie, such as orcas — not primates.

From Salon • Dec. 11, 2023

The government would buy one-fifth of its shares and private investors would purchase the rest, using specie and the new federal bonds created by funding and assumption.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Once chartered, a bank was supposed to sell stock for specie, and then start making loans in the form of paper notes bearing promises to pay a given amount of gold or silver on demand.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

One soldier in the Continental Army, Joseph Plumb Martin, recounted how he received no pay in paper money after 1777 and only one month’s payment in specie, or hard currency, in 1781.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

And again he perceived himself sub specie aeternitatis, the form-destroyer called forth by what he heard and saw here.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick