genus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Italic *genos
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.
Inflected forms:
form: genera
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: genuses
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
form: genusses
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
form: genii
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
Senses:
gloss: A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
pos: noun
examples: All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.
Other species of the genus Bos are often called cattle or wild cattle.
There are only two genera and species of seadragons.
Müller […] criticized the division of the "Jubuleae" into two families and he cited Jubula as an annectant genus.
Other maloid genera with hard nutlets are Cotoneaster, Hesperomeles, Osteomeles, and Pyracantba, but each of these is quite different from Mespilus and Crataegus.
gloss: A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
pos: noun
examples: In most cases, at subsequent mentions of the binomial name you can abbreviate the genus with no danger of confusing the reader.
gloss: A group with common attributes.
pos: noun
examples: Recollection is one of a whole genus of effects which are more or less peculiar to the phenomena that we naturally call "mental."
gloss: A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
pos: noun
gloss: Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.
pos: noun
Related words: gender
general
generate
generation
generic
genocide
genre
infrageneric
differentia
domain
kingdom
phylum
division
class
order
family
supergenus
subgenus
section
series
species
Derived words: 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
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: genus
lang: Afrikaans
word: geslag
lang: Albanian
word: gjini
lang: Amharic
word: ወገን
roman: wägän
lang: Arabic
word: جِنْس
roman: jins
lang: Armenian
word: ցեղ
roman: cʻeġ
lang: Azerbaijani
word: cins
lang: Belarusian
word: род
roman: rod
lang: Bengali
word: গণ
roman: gon
lang: Bengali
word: বর্গ
roman: borgo
lang: Bulgarian
word: род
roman: rod
lang: Burmese
word: မျိုးစု
roman: myui:cu.
lang: Carpathian Rusyn
word: род
roman: rod
lang: Catalan
word: gènere
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 屬 /属
roman: suk⁶
lang: Chinese
word: 屬 /属
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 屬 /属
roman: shǔ
lang: Czech
word: rod
lang: Danish
word: slægt
lang: Danish
word: genus
lang: Dutch
word: geslacht
lang: Esperanto
word: genro
lang: Estonian
word: perekond
lang: Finnish
word: suku
lang: French
word: genre
lang: Galician
word: xénero
lang: Georgian
word: გვარი
roman: gvari
lang: German
word: Gattung
lang: Greek
word: γένος
roman: génos
lang: Hebrew
word: סוּג
roman: sug
lang: Hindi
word: वंश
roman: vañś
lang: Hindi
word: जिंस
roman: jins
lang: Hungarian
word: nemzetség
lang: Icelandic
word: ættkvísl
lang: Ido
word: genero
lang: Indonesian
word: genus
lang: Irish
word: géineas
lang: Italian
word: genere
lang: Japanese
word: 属
roman: zoku
lang: Kazakh
word: тұқымдас
roman: tūqymdas
lang: Khmer
word: ពួក
roman: puək
lang: Korean
word: 속
roman: sok
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: tuxm
lang: Kyrgyz
word: уруу
roman: uruu
lang: Lao
word: ຈຳພວກ
roman: cham phūak
lang: Lao
word: ຊາດ
roman: sāt
lang: Lao
word: ຊາຕິ
roman: sā ti
lang: Latin
word: genus
lang: Lithuanian
word: gentis
lang: Macedonian
word: род
roman: rod
lang: Malagasy
word: karazana
lang: Malay
word: genus
lang: Malayalam
word: ജനുസ്സ്
roman: janussŭ
lang: Malayalam
word: ജീനസ്
roman: jīnasŭ
lang: Māori
word: puninga
lang: Mongolian
word: төрөл
roman: töröl
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: slekt
lang: Occitan
word: genre
lang: Dari
word: سَرْدَه
roman: sarda
lang: Dari
word: جِنْس
roman: jins
lang: Iranian Persian
word: سَرْدِه
roman: sarde
lang: Iranian Persian
word: جِنْس
roman: jens
lang: Polish
word: rodzaj
lang: Portuguese
word: gênero
lang: Romanian
word: gen
lang: Russian
word: род
roman: rod
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ро̑д
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rȏd
lang: Slovak
word: rod
lang: Slovene
word: rod
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: rod
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: ród
lang: Spanish
word: género (taxonómico)
lang: Swahili
word: jenasi
lang: Swedish
word: släkte
lang: Swedish
word: genus
lang: Tagalog
word: urihay
lang: Tajik
word: ҷинс
roman: jins
lang: Tatar
word: ыруг
roman: ıruğ
lang: Telugu
word: ప్రజాతి
roman: prajāti
lang: Thai
word: สกุล
roman: sà-gun
lang: Turkish
word: cins
lang: Turkmen
word: urug
lang: Turkmen
word: jyns
lang: Ukrainian
word: рід
roman: rid
lang: Urdu
word: جِنْس
roman: jins
lang: Uyghur
word: ئۇرۇق
roman: uruq
lang: Uyghur
word: جىنس
roman: jins
lang: Uzbek
word: jins
lang: Uzbek
word: urugʻ
lang: Vietnamese
word: chi
lang: Volapük
word: bid
lang: Welsh
word: genws
lang: Yiddish
word: מין
roman: min