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genus
- /ˈdʒiːnəs/ UK
- /ˈdʒɛnəs/ UK
- /ˈd͡ʒiːnəs/ US
Rhymes with -iːnəs, -ɛnəs, -iːnɪs
Where it comes from
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.
noun genera · genuses · genusses · genii
- A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species. All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.
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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.
Similar: genus name
- A group with common attributes. Recollection is one of a whole genus of effects which are more or less peculiar to the phenomena that we naturally call "mental."
- 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.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: knee, articulatio genus, knee joint, species, listeria, quitter, style, line, genre, sex, form, alley, ilk, kind, nature, type
Translations
Every language
noun rank in a taxonomic classification between family and species
| Español | género (taxonómico) |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 속 sok |
| 日本語 | 属 zoku |
| 中文 | 屬 /属 shǔ |
| हिन्दी | वंश vañś, जिंस jins |
| Kiswahili | jenasi |
| Português | gênero |
| Français | genre |
| Deutsch | Gattung |
| Italiano | genere |
| Ελληνικά | γένος génos |
| Română | gen |
| Русский | род rod |
| Tiếng Việt | chi |
| العربية | جِنْس jins |
| עברית | סוּג sug |
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