genus
A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family and above speciesA category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
» Bison is a genus from the bovid family.
Meaning
6 sensesA 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
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
A group with common attributes.
классklass
A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.
- a general kind of something
- (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species
Examples
14 sentencesBison is a genus from the bovid family.
Wolves and dogs are animals from the same genus, but different species.
The golden jackal is in the same genus as wolves and coyotes.
Horses and zebras are animals of the same genus, but different species.
In many ways, these fossils are the 'smoking gun' just before the emergence of our own genus.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from Latin genus (“birth, origin, a race, sort, kind”) from the root gen- in LatiBorrowed 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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Forms
plural: genera / genusesSynonyms
1 synonymsWord family
39 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular