Definitions
General kind or biological classification rank.
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Biological category”5 letters
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