English Explanatory Dictionary

genus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
  2. A taxon at this rank.
  3. A group with common attributes.
  4. A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
  5. Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
  6. A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.

Pronunciation

jēn’-əs jĕn’-əs /ˈdʒiːnəs/ /ˈdʒɛnəs/ En-us-genus.ogg

Word forms

genus genera genuses genusses genii

Etymology

Etymology tree 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.

Synonyms

genus name

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

Afrikaans: genus Afrikaans: geslag Albanian: gjini Arabic: جِنْس Armenian: ցեղ Azerbaijani: cins Belarusian: род Bengali: গণ Bengali: বর্গ Bulgarian: род Burmese: မျိုးစု Carpathian Rusyn: род Catalan: gènere Chinese Cantonese: 屬 /属 Chinese: 屬 /属 Chinese Mandarin: 屬 /属 Czech: rod Danish: slægt Danish: genus Dutch: geslacht Esperanto: genro Estonian: perekond Finnish: suku French: genre Galician: xénero Georgian: გვარი German: Gattung Greek: γένος Hebrew: סוּג Hindi: वंश Hindi: जिंस Hungarian: nemzetség Icelandic: ættkvísl Ido: genero Indonesian: genus Irish: géineas Italian: genere Japanese: 属 Kazakh: тұқымдас Khmer: ពួក Korean: 속 Northern Kurdish: tuxm Kyrgyz: уруу Lao: ຈຳພວກ Lao: ຊາດ Lao: ຊາຕິ
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