new species
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- noun
- /nu ˈspiːʃiz/
- Specialized
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nueva especie
- The census has discovered close to 6,000 new species and described 1,200 of them.
- describe new species
- discover new species
- discovery of new species
It's the first time we're creating an entirely new species, and maybe also the last time.
- It's the first time we're creating an entirely new species, and maybe also the last time.
- And every year we found new species, whether it be deep coral or new types of fish.
- And just just as I was doing this video, there was this new species of tree frog that was found in the jungles of South America.
- It's acting as a new species of single celled Organism that just so happens to share to to be genetically you.
Examples
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Dense blooms of blue-green algae developed and persisted, and new species of fish were introduced and survived.
Academic text (1996) -
It's like discovering a new species of animal.
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It's incredible, there are new species all around us.
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I think this might be a new species.
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Did we find something new, like an actual new species?
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We are facing a new species that is increasing in number.
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How often do they discover new species?
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And every year we found new species, whether it be deep coral or new types of fish.
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On this single trip, the marine biologists discover three new species
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Scientists discovered dozens of new species in the rain forest of Papua, New Guinea.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'new' (recent, novel) modifying 'species' (a group of organisms), so a learner who knows both words will infer 'a species that has not been identified before'. This adjective-noun pattern is a basic, cross-linguistically common composition, making the phrase immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
New species comes from the words new (just found) and species (a group of similar animals or plants). When scientists find a group that was 'not seen before', they call it a new species, so the phrase means a group of organisms 'not previously identified'.