genuses

noun pl. genera or genuses

1. a class; kind; sort
2. Biol. 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: the Latinized genus name is capitalized and italicized, and precedes the species name, which is italicized but not capitalized (Ex.: Homo sapiens, modern man)
3. Logic a class of things made up of subordinate classes or species