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The quality or state of being apparently good or right though lacking real merit; The quality or state of being superficially pleasing or plausible

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  • It is observed in similitude, inasmuch as it forms the ground of species or form, and so is called speciosity, because beauty is nothing but numerical equality, or a...
  • It is unfortunate, for when Anna is stirred by the sight of him and his all-conquering speciosity, any reader is sure to protest.
  • We used non-parametric Kendall correlations to test for an association between the speciosity of genera and the mean and median number of subspecies per species.
  • Within the 98 families with at least three genera, 59 families had a positive relationship between the speciosity of genera and the mean number of subspecies per species...
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