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Synonyms for genus

Grammar : Noun
Spell : jee-nuh s
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒi nəs

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Définition of genus

Origin :
  • (plural genera), 1550s as a term of logic, "kind or class of things" (biological sense dates from c.1600), from Latin genus (genitive generis) "race, stock, kind; family, birth, descent, origin," cognate with Greek genos "race, kind," and gonos "birth, offspring, stock," from PIE root *gen(e)- "produce, beget, be born" (cf. Sanskrit janati "begets, bears," janah "race," janman- "birth, origin," jatah "born;" Avestan zizanenti "they bear;" Greek gignesthai "to become, happen;" Latin gignere "to beget," gnasci "to be born," genius "procreative divinity, inborn tutelary spirit, innate quality," ingenium "inborn character," germen "shoot, bud, embryo, germ;" Lithuanian gentis "kinsmen;" Gothic kuni "race;" Old English cennan "beget, create;" Old High German kind "child;" Old Irish ro-genar "I was born;" Welsh geni "to be born;" Armenian chanim "I bear, I am born").
  • noun type
Example sentences :
  • Although the batrachian is of the genus bufo, he is by no means a buffo genius.
  • Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 8, May 21, 1870 » by Various
  • The genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
  • But I have not yet regularly described the genus and species of which I am treating.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • But you don't understand, and I'll have to talk to my genus.
  • Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 » by Various
  • Its use will help to locate the plant in hand in the genus to which it belongs.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • By the collar the genus differs from the other genera which are to follow.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • The genus has neither a volva nor a ring and the spores are white.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • The genus Clitocybe differs from Tricholoma in the character of the gills.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • Russula is so named because of its likeness in color to some species of the genus Russula.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • It is quite a typical species, too, having all the characteristics of the genus.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard

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