Genus Synonyms

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Synonyms for Genus

species
(Logic) A class of individuals or objects having certain distinguishing attributes in common, given a common name, and comprised with other similar classes in a more comprehensive grouping called a genus
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family
(Countable) A father, mother and their sons and daughters; also called nuclear family.
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sort
A person; an individual:
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variety
A number or collection of varied things, especially of a particular group; an assortment:
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description
A kind or sort:
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gender
(Gram.) The formal classification by which nouns are grouped and inflected, or changed in form, so as to reflect certain syntactic relationships: pronouns, modifiers, and verbs may also be so inflected: although gender is not a formal feature of English, some nouns and the third person singular pronouns are distinguished according to sex or the lack of sex (Ex.: man or he, masculine gender; woman or she, feminine gender; door or it, neuter gender): in most Indo-European languages, as well as in many others, gender is not necessarily correlated with sex
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group
(Chemistry) A functional entity consisting of certain atoms whose presence provides a certain property to a molecule, such as the methyl group.
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kind
Lineal ancestors or descendants considered as a group.
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order
A group of persons living under a religious rule:
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style
Style is defined as a particular of doing or saying something, or refers to a unique form of clothing or way of arranging your appearance.
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type
The definition of a type means people, places or things that share traits which allow them to belong to the same group.
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category
A specific grammatical defining property of a linguistic unit or class, such as number or gender in the noun and tense or voice in the verb.
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classification
The definition of classification is a grouping of people or things in a systematic way.
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Words Related to Genus

taxon
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subgenus
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subfamily
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monotypic
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orchidaceae
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phylum
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clade
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euphorbiaceae
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specie
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sub-species
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Frailea
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ascomycete
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class
The subject material taught to or studied by such a group:
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  • They are the starfish proper, and have the typical genus Asterias.

  • The genus is associated with one long extinct in Europe.

  • By early writers the word was generally given as an equivalent of the Linnaean Loxia, but that genus has been found to include many forms not now placed in the same family.

  • The only species of this genus is about the size of a small rat, found in the interior of Australia.

  • The genus Pyrophorus contains about ninety species, and is entirely confined to America and the West Indies, ranging from the southern United States to Argentina and Chile.

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