Usually means: Abbreviation for species in taxonomy.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word SP:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. SP, Sp, sp: Merriam-Webster
  2. SP, Sp, s.p, sp: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. SP, Sp, s.p, sp: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sp, sp: Collins English Dictionary
  5. SP, SP, Sp, sp, sp, sP: Wordnik
  6. SP, sp: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. SP, Sp, s.p, sp: Wiktionary
  8. s.p, sp: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. SP, sp: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. SP: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. SP, s.p, sp: Dictionary.com
  12. SP (TV series), SP, Sp: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. SP, SP, Sp, sp: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  14. SP, Sp, s.p: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Paris Cookbook (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. SP: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  5. SP, sp: Legal dictionary
  6. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. SP: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  3. SP: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. SP, sp: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. sp: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. SP: Glossary of Medical Education Terms
  5. Sleep Terms (No longer online)
  6. Sp, sp: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. s.p, s.p, s.p: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. SP: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SP: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  2. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SP: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. SP: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. S.P, S.P, sp, sp: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. SP: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  5. SP: Coin Collecting

Definitions from Wiktionary (Sp)

noun:  (horse racing) Starting price.
noun:  Selling price
noun:  (US, military, navy) Shore patrol
noun:  (law enforcement) state police
noun:  Slow play
noun:  (computing) service pack
noun:  (video games, mostly role-playing games) synonym of or alternative to MP/magic points, especially for games that lack magic or fantasy elements. Common examples of meanings of the abbreviation include but are not limited to: skill point, special point, spirit point, and spell point.
noun:  (biochemistry) substance P
noun:  State Park
noun:  (highways) Spur
noun:  (ice skating) Short Program
noun:  Spanish (language)
noun:  September
noun:  (law enforcement) Abbreviation of superintendent. [A person who is authorized to supervise, direct or administer something.]
noun:  (Scientology) Initialism of suppressive person. [(Scientology) A person who is seen in Scientology as having an "antisocial" personality, due to leaving the Church or other causes.]
noun:  (firearms) Abbreviation of soft point. [(firearms) A bullet with such a tip.]
noun:  (Hong Kong) Initialism of sex partner. [Someone that one has sex with, especially on an informal or casual basis.]
noun:  Initialism of São Paulo, A state of Brazil. [A state of the Southeast Region, Brazil. Capital: São Paulo.]
noun:  Abbreviation of spelling; often used when correcting or questioning one's own spelling. [(uncountable) The act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography.]
noun:  Abbreviation of spur. (in highway designations and signage) [A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.]
noun:  (typography) Abbreviation of space. [(heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.]
verb:  (proofreading) Abbreviation of spell out. [(transitive) To form (a word) from letters; say the letters in a word.]

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