differentia
noun
the character or attribute by which one species is distinguished from all others of the same genus.
differentiae
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pluralof differentia.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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If genera are different and co-ordinate, their differentiae are themselves different in kind.
From The Categories by E. M. Edghill
All people can see this; but not all people can see further, or define the differentiae.
From Thoughts on Religion by Charles Gore
After all, what are the chief differentiae between man and the brute creation but that he clothes himself, that he cooks his food, that he uses articulate speech?
From On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
But it is also essential to the understanding of this thesis that the differentiae of the hereditary factors should be clearly grasped.
From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
Some few diseases are, however, unequivocally referred to as infectious in a limited number of passages, e. g. ophthalmia, scabies, and phthisis in the περι διαφορας πυρετων, On the differentiae of fevers, K. vii, p.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone
