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speciosity
/ˌspiːʃiˈɒsɪti/
noun 3
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3ADJ.
due, geographical, irrespective
VERB + SPECIOSITY
rest
SPECIOSITY + NOUN
epinephelinae, passerines
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noun
1
The state or quality of being specious.
2
A specious action, promise, ideology, etc.
Till deep misery, if nothing softer will, have driven you out of your Speciosites into your Sincerities; and you find there either is a Godlike in the world, or else ye are an unintelligible madness;
noun
1
The state or quality of being speciose.
The circumstance that the proportion of taxa with 12 + 14 vertebrae increased in the lower categories is due to the speciosity of the Epinephelinae.
[David] Jablonski’s end-Cretaceous mollusc genera suffer extinction to an equal degree, irrespective of their speciosity, geographical spread or other extinctionproof insurance policies.
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Till deep misery, if nothing softer will, have driven you out of your Speciosites into your Sincerities; and you find there either is a Godlike in the world, or else ye are an unintelligible madness;
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The circumstance that the proportion of taxa with 12 + 14 vertebrae increased in the lower categories is due to the speciosity of the Epinephelinae.
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[David] Jablonski’s end-Cretaceous mollusc genera suffer extinction to an equal degree, irrespective of their speciosity, geographical spread or other extinctionproof insurance policies.
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Here, then, is the old familiar pattern: one group among many expands until they outnumber all the rest. Yet the speciosity of the passerines should not be confused with ‘dominance’. Though they are,
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