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a taxonomic group containing one or more species

It is a rare long-arm squid of the genus Magnapinna.

The genus Begonia contains about 1000 species.
And thereby whalemen distinguish this fish from other tribes of his genus.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
There were arthropods in the bedrooms, families and genera various, but half of them were cockroaches.
Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake

genera = a taxonomic group containing one or more species

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.
Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
Then you'd narrow it down, Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species, then the habitat and when last seen, and what had snuffed it.
Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
There are some fifty varieties of toxic locoweeds, the bulk of which are in the genus Astragalus, a genus very closely related to Hedysarum.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
This is the only sensible manner of dealing with such verses: Why trouble yourself about the species till you have previously decided upon the genus?
William Wordsworth -- Preface to Lyrical Ballads
And she is an unimpeachable Christian, I am sure; perhaps of the very tribe, genus, and species you desire to propagate.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Or it is a small plant of the genus Veronia.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
To the order of Ganoides—an order of fish having angular scales, covered with bright enamel—forming one of the family of the Cephalaspides, of the genus—
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
There are something like three hundred genera of dinosaurs known so far.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
Genera Epanchin alone determined to depart.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
It is some systematized exhibition of the whale in his broad genera, that I would now fain put before you.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
Usually they'd read the plaque that was nailed to its trunk: "Sassafras: family Lauraceae, genus Sassafras, species S. albidum.
Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree
Genus—unknown; therefore named after the discoverer, and from the happy coincidence of being seen in the evening—Vespertilio Horribilis, Americanus.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
You could put it that way, Mr. Secretary-Genera].
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
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.
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
"Tut, tut!" answered the abbe, "man is but man after all, and you are about the best specimen of the genus I have ever known.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
Each of these families is divided into several genera, each genus into species, each species into varieties.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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