Genus



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. ( 动植物的) 属
• ［英］ n. ( 动植物的) 属 ( division of animals or plants, below a family and above a species)

Webster Collegiate

noun (plural genera; also genuses)

• Etymology: Latin gener-, genus birth, race, kind — more at kin
• Date: 1551
• 1. a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic; specifically 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, and being designated by a Latin or latinized capitalized singular noun
• 2. a class of objects divided into several subordinate species

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