genus meaning

• Noun: genus (genera)  jeenus
  1. A general kind of something
     "ignore the genus communism" 
  2. (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species

  Derived forms: genera

  See also: generic

  Type of: form, kind, sort, taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group, variety

  Part of: family

  Encyclopedia: Genus

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  [Medicine]
  n pl gen·era : a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic; specif : a category of biological classification ranking between the family and the species, comprising structurally or phylogenetically related species or an isolated species exhibiting unusual differentiation, and being designated by a Latin or latinized capitalized singular noun
  

• It inhabits a larger area than the megascolecid genus pheretinca.
• In the ancient genus descent was limited to the female line.
• He allowed these "enucleated" eggs to be fertilized by sperm from sea urchins of the genus echinus.
• The difficulty in distinguishing variable species is largely due to the varieties mocking, as it were, other species of the same genus.
• Two species of genus scapania hepaticae; scapaniaceae new to china
• A new species of the genus camellia from guangdong, china
• Notes on three species of the genus illicium linn . illiciaceae
• A catalog of the genus tachinus of world was given
• Tropical flower the shoeflower, genus hibicus
• New chinese records of the lichen genus melanelia

• "genus" meaning in Chinese: n. (pl. genera , genuses)1.种类，类；【生物学】属。2.【逻辑学】类，类概念。 短语和例...
• "genus" meaning in Japanese: genus n. (pl. genera) 〔生物〕 属. 【動詞＋】 ◆the number of species...
• "genus" meaning in Russian: 1) _биол. род Ex: the genus Homo часто род человеческий, ч...
• "genus" meaning in French: n. genre (biologie)