Genus Definition

jēnəs
genera, genuses
noun
A major category in the classification of animals, plants, etc., ranking above a species and below a family: it can include one species or many similar species.
Webster's New World
A class; kind; sort.
Webster's New World

A class of things made up of subordinate classes or species.

Webster's New World

(topology) A number measuring some aspect of the complexity of any of various manifolds or graphs.

Wiktionary
(semantics) Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Genus

Noun

Singular:
genus
Plural:
genera

Origin of Genus

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

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin kind genə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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