Look up: genus


  1. genus
    Latin, meaning: kind, sort, class, category.
    Found op http://archives.nd.edu/ggg.htm

  2. Genus
    groups of closely related species clearly defined from other plants.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20003

  3. genus
    n. A category in the classification of plants and animals between species and family; genera- pl.
    Found op http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/glossary_7.html

  4. Genus
    a taxonomic category including one or more species with a presumed recent common ancestor.
    Found op http://www.runet.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/glossary.html

  5. Genus
    (pronounced GEE-nus) In classification, a genus is a group of related or similar organisms. A genus contains one or more species. A group of similar genera (the plural of genus) forms a family. In the scientific name of an organism, the first name is its genus (for example, people are Homo sapiens -...
    Found op http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/glossary/

  6. Genus
    Used when naming plants. Genus is the plant equivalent of our surnames. When followed by the name of the 'species' you have it's botanical name. Almost always in Latin.
    Found op http://www.emilycompost.com/garden_glossary.htm

  7. Genus
    A category including closely related species. Interbreeding between organisms within the same category can occur.
    Found op http://filebox.vt.edu/cals/cses/chagedor/glossary.html

  8. genus
    A taxonomic rank above species and below family; the generic name of an organism is the first of the binomial. (Pl. genera.)
    Found op http://ppathw3.cals.cornell.edu/glossary/Defs_G.htm

  9. genus
    Category of organisms ranking above a species and below a family.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php

  10. Genus
    (plural: genera) The level of the taxonomic hierarchy above the species but below the family level
    Found op http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/glossary.ghijk.html

  11. Genus
    The principal subdivision of a family next above a species. A group of related species with similar characteristics and appearing to have a common ancestry.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php

  12. Genus
    A biological classification that combines organisms sharing common characteristics; ranks between species and family.
    Found op http://www.moggies.co.uk/gloss.html



  1. genus
    [n] - (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species 2. [n] - a general kind of something
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=genus

  2. Genus
    A group of closely related plants e.g. Birch are grouped in the genus Betula
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php

  3. Genus
    A category of biological classification ranking between the family and the species, comprising structurally or phylogenetically related species or an isolated species exhibiting unusual differentiation.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20945

  4. Genus
    Ge'nus (jē'nŭs) noun ; plural Genera . [ Latin , birth, race, kind, sort; akin to Greek .... See Gender , and confer Benign .] 1. (Logic) A class of objects divided into several subordinate specie...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/20

  5. genus
    <zoology> The second most specific taxonomic level, includes closely related species. Interbreeding between organisms within the same genus can occur. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?genus

  6. genus
    noun a general kind of something; `ignore the genus communism`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=genus

  7. genus
    noun (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=genus

  8. genus
    (je´nәs) pl. gen´era a taxonomic category (taxon) subordinate to a tribe (or subtribe) and superior to a species (or subgenus).
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001

  9. Genus
    • (n.) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms. • (n.) An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structu...
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/genus/

  10. genus
    biological classification ranking between family and species, consisting of structurally or phylogenetically related species or an isolated species ... [5 related articles]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/g/21

  11. Genus
    [comics] Genus is a furry erotic comic book originally published by Antarctic Press and continued by Radio Comix. The comic began in June 1993, with 91 issues published as of June 2009. Diamond Comic Distributors catalog describes it as "The longest-running erotic comic anthology". == Genus ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genus_(comics)

  12. genus
    taxonomic classification of a group of species having similar characteristics.
    Found op http://www.chameleoncrazy.com/terminology.php

  13. Genus
    [mathematics] In mathematics, genus (plural genera) has a few different, but closely related, meanings: ==Topology== ===Orientable surface=== The genus of a connected, orientable surface is an integer representing the maximum number of cuttings along non-intersecting closed simple curves wit...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genus_(mathematics)

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