Genus in a sentence as a noun

That's probably because it's not even in the same genus as the others.

"Allium" is the Latin name of the genus to which onion and garlic belong.

This is the problem with using a common name that refers to a genus instead of species.

In a way, a women's quota is a species of the genus affirmative action.

A clothes washer is another robot of the genus 'washer' but works only on clothes.

TBH I've always thought that variations in skulls unearthed and labelled as different genus seemed not to be that varied next to the variation in modern people.

Perhaps intelligences like ours are well understood, well classified in the genus of the universe, and we are about as ordinary as a barnacle on the hull of a tug boat.

> Humanity will have entirely disappeared in a million yearsEven if you mean that in the narrow sense of H. sapiens, rather than humans as genus ****, that would make H. sapiens a shorter-lived species that H. erectus.

"Each about one microna thousandth of a millimeterin length, the newfound genus Pandoravirus dwarfs other viruses, which range in size from about 50 nanometers up to 100 nanometers.

At some point you have a set of purely irrational axioms about some qualities, be they kingdom, phylum, family, genus, species, or some other subjective criteria for what makes a living creature worthy of consideration when its life is in danger.

Requiring only high school algebra as mathematical background, the book leads the reader from simple graphs through planar graphs, Euler's formula, Platonic graphs, coloring, the genus of a graph, Euler walks, Hamilton walks, and a discussion of The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg.

For example if there is a genus with three species, each of which is very similar and has very little distinctive written about it, the normal organization would be to write one article on the genus, with a short discussion of each subspecies in the main article, not broken out into three separate duplicative and near-empty articles.

The malaria parasite microorganism, one of the species of the Plasmodium genus of protozoa,[2] is also being targeted directly both for vaccine prevention and for drug treatment of malaria, but part of the Plasmodium life cycle is obligatorily in living mosquitoes, so to **** mosquitoes is to reduce the load of the parasite and its risk to human populations.

Genus definitions

noun

a general kind of something; "ignore the genus communism"

noun

(biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species