genus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jēn’-əs
enpr: jĕn’-əs
ipa: /ˈdʒiːnəs/
ipa: /ˈdʒɛnəs/
enpr: jēn’-əs
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiːnəs/
rhymes: -iːnəs
rhymes: -ɛnəs
Forms: form: genera
form: genuses
form: genusses
form: genii
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Latin genusbor.
English genus
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.
Senses: examples: text: All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.
text: Other species of the genus Bos are often called cattle or wild cattle.
text: There are only two genera and species of seadragons.
text: Müller […] criticized the division of the "Jubuleae" into two families and he cited Jubula as an annectant genus.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6:
text: Other maloid genera with hard nutlets are Cotoneaster, Hesperomeles, Osteomeles, and Pyracantba, but each of these is quite different from Mespilus and Crataegus.
ref: 2003, James B. Phipps, Robert J. O'Kennon, Ronald W. Lance, Hawthorns and Medlars, Portland, O.R.: Timber Press, →ISBN, page 57:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
examples: text: In most cases, at subsequent mentions of the binomial name you can abbreviate the genus with no danger of confusing the reader.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
A taxon at this rank.
synonyms: genus name#Noun
qualifier: by ellipsis
examples: text: Recollection is one of a whole genus of effects which are more or less peculiar to the phenomena that we naturally call "mental."
ref: 1945, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, page 655:
glosses: A group with common attributes.
topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
glosses: Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.
Hyponyms: topics: topology
mathematics
sciences
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
word: Euler genus
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: chromatic
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: diatonic
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
english: genus
translation: genus
word: enharmonic
Derived terms: bigenus
cloud genus
demigenus
Euler-Fokker genus
Euler genus
form genus
genarian
genotype
genus alternas
genus name
ichnogenus
intergenus
intragenus
multigenus
nothogenus
oogenus
plurigenus
pseudogenus
summum genus
type genus
Related terms: word: gender
word: general
word: generate
word: generation
word: generic
word: genocide
word: genre
word: infrageneric
topics: semantics
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: differentia
sense: biological taxa
word: domain
sense: biological taxa
word: kingdom
sense: biological taxa
word: phylum
sense: biological taxa
word: division
sense: biological taxa
word: class
sense: biological taxa
word: order
sense: biological taxa
word: family
sense: biological taxa
word: supergenus
sense: biological taxa
word: subgenus
sense: biological taxa
word: section
sense: biological taxa
word: series
sense: biological taxa
word: species