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[ UK /dʒˈɛnəs/ ]
[ UK /dʒˈɛnəs/ ]
NOUN
- (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species
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a general kind of something
ignore the genus communism
How To Use genus In A Sentence
- Moreover, see whether the term rendered fail to be the genus of anything at all; for then clearly it also fails to be the genus of the species mentioned. Topics
- The genus Barclaya is very seldom seen in association with Cryptocoryne species.
- There is also a small genus of orchids, called coralroots, that obtains the majority of its nutrition from a mycorrhizal association with soil fungi.
- Haec gens ipsa quidem prope internicione sublata est à Nasamonibus, qui nunc eas tenent sedes: genus tamen hominum ex his qui profugerant, aut cùm pugnatum est, abfuerant, hodièque remanent in paucis. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
- For shame, Barnet! what ninnis, what hartless raskles, you must beleave them to be, — in the fust plase, to fancy that you are a politticle genus; in the secknd, to let your politix interfear with their notiums about littery merits! The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
- Many other species of Callia also resemble other malacoderms; and the longicorn genus Lycidola has been named from its resemblance to various species of the Lycidae, one of the species here figured (Lycidola belti) being a good mimic of Calopteron corrugatum and of several other allied species, all being of about the same size and found at Chontales. Darwinism (1889)
- Ammopiptanthus Cheng f. is the only genus of evergreen broadleaf shrubs in the north-western desert of China.
- Relapsing fever is caused by the spirochete within the genus Borrelia.
- The genus Prionospio Malmgren 1867 includes species with smooth, non-pinnate and pinnate branchiae arranged in various combinations.
- An. darlingi proteins were found that match culicine but not anopheline proteins, indicating loss or rapid evolution of these proteins in the old world Cellia subgenus. BioMed Central - Latest articles