Meaning

6 senses
  1. A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.

    All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.

    Other species of the genus Bos are often called cattle or wild cattle.

    Gattung

    родrod

    рідrid

  2. A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.

    A taxon at this rank.

    In most cases, at subsequent mentions of the binomial name you can abbreviate the genus with no danger of confusing the reader.

    Gattung

    родrod

  3. A group with common attributes.

    классklass

  4. A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.

  5. Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.

  6. A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.

More definitions
  • a general kind of something
  • (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species

Examples

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  1. Bison is a genus from the bovid family.

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  2. Wolves and dogs are animals from the same genus, but different species.

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  3. The golden jackal is in the same genus as wolves and coyotes.

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  4. Horses and zebras are animals of the same genus, but different species.

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  5. In many ways, these fossils are the 'smoking gun' just before the emergence of our own genus.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
rank in a taxonomic classification between family and species:
Русский
By meaning 2
rank in a taxonomic classification between family and species:
group with common attributes:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
rank in a taxonomic classification between family and species:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin genus (“birth, origin, a race, sort, kind”) from the root gen- in Lati

Borrowed from Latin genus (“birth, origin, a race, sort, kind”) from the root gen- in Latin gignō (“to beget, produce”). Doublet of gender and genre, further related to kin.

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