speciose
/ˈspiːʃɪəʊs/ /ˈspiːʃɪəʊz/ /ˈspiːsɪəʊs/Biology
adjective
Of a taxon or other group of organisms: comprising many species; species-rich.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Copeia. From speci- + -ose.
- parson-in-the-pulpit
- parsonish
- parsonizing
- Parson Jack Russell
- Parson Jack Russell Terrier
- parson-like
- parson-poet
- parson-power
- parsonry
- parsons-and-clerks
- parson's bands
- parson's freehold
- parsonsite
- parson's nose
- Parsons, Sir Charles
- pars pro toto
- pars tuberalis
- part
- partable
- Partaga
- Partagas
- partage
- partake
- partaker
- partan