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Genus Definition

genus

See also ĝenus, and -genus

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English

English Wikipedia has articles on: Genus (disambiguation) and Genus

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin genus (“birth, origin, a race, sort, kind”) from the root gen- in Latin gignere, Old Latin gegnere (“to beget, produce”).

Pronunciation

Noun

genus (plural genera)

  1. (biology, taxonomy) a rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank
    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.
    • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 6
      Müller […] criticized the division of the "Jubuleae" into two families and he cited Jubula as an annectant genus.
  2. A group with common attributes
  3. (topology) A number measuring some aspect of the complexity of any of various manifolds or graphs
  4. (semantics) Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.

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Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on: Genus

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Etymology

Borrowed rom Latin genus.

Pronunciation

Noun

genus n. (plural indefinite genus or genera)

  1. (biology, taxonomy) genus
  2. (grammar) gender

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin genus.

Noun

genus n. (plural genera)

  1. (botany) a rank in a taxonomic classification, in between family and species.
  2. (botany) a taxon at this rank
  3. (linguistics) gender

Synonyms

Latin

Latin Wikipedia has articles on: Genus

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Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os (“race”). Cognates include Ancient Greek γένος (genos, “race, stock, kin, kind”), Sanskrit जनस् (jánas, “race, class of beings”).

Noun

genus (genitive generis); n, third declension

  1. birth, origin
  2. kind, type, class
  3. set, group (with common attributes)
Inflection
Number Singular Plural
nominative genus genera
genitive generis generum
dative generī generibus
accusative genus genera
ablative genere generibus
vocative genus genera
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Descendants

Etymology 2

Inflection of genū.

Noun

genūs

  1. genitive singular of genū

Etymology 3

Inflection of genus

Noun

genus

  1. accusative singular of genus
  2. vocative singular of genus

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on: Genus

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Noun

genus n.

  1. (grammar) gender (division of nouns and pronouns)
  2. (social) gender, sex (social issues of being man or woman)

Declension

Declension of genus
singular plural
Neuter indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative genus genuset genus genusen
genitive genus genusets genus genusens

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In biology, a genus (plural: genera) is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia.
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