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genus
[ jee-nuhs ]
noun
- Biology. the usual major subdivision of a family or subfamily in the classification of organisms, usually consisting of more than one species.
- Logic. a class or group of individuals, or of species of individuals.
- a kind; sort; class.
genus
/ ˈːə /
noun
- biology any of the taxonomic groups into which a family is divided and which contains one or more species. For example, Vulpes (foxes) is a genus of the dog family ( Canidae )
- logic a class of objects or individuals that can be divided into two or more groups or species
- a class, group, etc, with common characteristics
- maths a number characterizing a closed surface in topology equal to the number of handles added to a sphere to form the surface. A sphere has genus 0, a torus, genus 1, etc
genus
/ ŧ′ə /
, Plural genera ĕ′ə-ə
- A group of organisms ranking above a species and below a family. The names of genera, like those of species, are written in italics. For example, Periplaneta is the genus of the American cockroach, and comes from the Greek for “wandering about.”
- See Table at taxonomy
genus
- In biology , the classification lower than a family and higher than a species . Wolves belong to the same genus as dogs. Foxes belong to a different genus from that of dogs and wolves, but to the same family. ( See Linnean classification .)
Other 51Թ Forms
- d·nܲ noun plural pseudogenera pseudogenuses
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of genus1
Example Sentences
Nakai spent time studying the Dudleya genus, succulents native to the West Coast, and contributed to its taxonomy, or scientific classification.
However their diversity remains relatively low, with only 31 described species in the Branchiostegidae family and 19 in the Branchiostegus genus.
They are the only snake of their genus to give live birth, the Australian Museum says on its website.
These freshwater wetlands harbor abundant species of bacteria in the Mycobacterium genus -- the same genus as the tuberculosis-causing bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
One day 1.5 million years ago, two or three individuals of our genus Homo walked along a muddy lakeshore.
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