Noun: genus
| Singular | genus |
| Plural | genera |
Sample Sentences
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All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.
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Other species of the genus Bos are often called cattle or wild cattle.
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There are only two genera and species of seadragons.
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Müller […] criticized the division of the "Jubuleae" into two families and he cited Jubula as an annectant genus. [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:]
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Other maloid genera with hard nutlets are Cotoneaster, Hesperomeles, Osteomeles, and Pyracantba, but each of these is quite different from Mespilus and Crataegus. [2003, James B. Phipps, Robert J. O'Kennon, Ronald W. Lance, Hawthorns and Medlars, Portland, O.R.: Timber Press, →ISBN, page 57:]
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In most cases, at subsequent mentions of the binomial name you can abbreviate the genus with no danger of confusing the reader.
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Recollection is one of a whole genus of effects which are more or less peculiar to the phenomena that we naturally call "mental." [1945, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, page 655:]
Nouns inflected like genus
genus,
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-os
4. Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
5. Proto-Italic *genos
6. Latin genusbor.
7. English genus
8. 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. See: Latin Nouns '
genus', Latin Nouns '
gignō'.