Both Uses of
genus
in
Arrowsmith
- The articles and editorials regarding him, in newspapers, house organs, and one rubber-goods periodical, were accompanied by photographs of himself, his buxom wife, and his eight bounding daughters, depicted in Canadian winter costumes among snow and icicles, in modest but easy athletic costumes, playing tennis in the backyard, and in costumes of no known genus whatever, frying bacon against a background of Northern Minnesota pines.†
Chpt 19 *
- Yet such is the weakness of genus homo that sometimes, when I ought to be attending to practical details, I become obsessed by some probably absurd pathological concept, and so ridiculous am I that I can't wait to hasten down the hall to my regular laboratory—I must always have a bench at hand and an experiment going on.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(genus as in: genus of plant) a related group of animal or plant species
(as living organisms are classified, a genus can have many species but belongs to a single family)editor's notes: A genus is a descriptive Latin word that is always capitalized.