dynamic
toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

genus
in a sentence

Show 3 more sentences
  • The genus Begonia contains about 1000 species.
  • Some critics argue that horror is a distinct genus of storytelling with its own rules and rhythms.
    genus = category or kind
  • There are many of that genus here, but this particular species usually inhabits regions south of this latitude because these waters are too cool for them.  (source)
    genus = a related group of animal or plant species
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 3 word variations
  • Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.  (source)
    Genus = a related group of animal or plant species
  • There are something like three hundred genera of dinosaurs known so far.  (source)
    genera = biological groups
  • The boundaries between the various genuses and species in nature are another example of the same truth.†  (source)
    genuses = groups of animal or plant species
  • Marie-Laure is not a collector in the way that Dr. Geffard was, an amasser, always looking to scurry down the scales of order, family, genus, species, and subspecies.  (source)
    genus = biological group below family and above species
  • It was as if they were powered by some massive underground genera-tor that powered fluorescent chemicals in large tubes made to look like trees.†  (source)
    genera = groups of animal or plant species
  • Or it is a small plant of the genus Veronia.  (source)
    genus = biological group
  • Two genera tions had built what I saw; and I mourned for that lost labour.†  (source)
    genera = groups of animal or plant species
  • There are some fifty varieties of toxic locoweeds, the bulk of which are in the genus Astragalus, a genus very closely related to Hedysarum.†  (source)
    genus = a related group of animal or plant species
  • You could put it that way, Mr. Secretary-Genera].†  (source)
    Genera = groups of animal or plant species
  • The real blow came twelve years later, when, as a consequence of a radical taxonomic reshuffle, lepidopterists decided that Pappachi's moth was in fact a separate species and genus hitherto unknown to science.†  (source)
    genus = a related group of animal or plant species
▲ show less (of above)

rare meaning

Show 2 sentences
  • I know evrybody feels sorry for me at the bakery and I dont want that eather so Im going someplace where they are a lot of other pepul like me and nobody cares that Charlie Gordon was once a genus and now he cant even reed a book or rite good.  (source)
    genus = intentional misspelling
  • Evry body feels sorry at the factery and I dont want that eather so Im going someplace where nobody knows that Charlie Gordon was once a genus and now he can't even reed a book or rite good.  (source)
▲ show less (of above)