genus

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈdʒiːnəs/|/ˈdʒɛnəs/    美 /ˈd͡ʒiːnəs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
    — All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.
  2. A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.; A taxon at this rank.
    — In most cases, at subsequent mentions of the binomial name you can abbreviate the genus with no danger of confusing the reader.
  3. A group with common attributes.
    — Recollection is one of a whole genus of effects which are more or less peculiar to the phenomena that we naturally call "mental."
  4. A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
  5. Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
  6. A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.

词形变化

genera plural genuses nonstandard,plural genusses nonstandard,plural genii nonstandard,plural

词汇关系

下位词
Euler genus chromatic diatonic enharmonic
衍生词
bigenus cloud genus demigenus Euler-Fokker genus Euler genus form genus genarian genotype genus alternas genus name ichnogenus intergenus intragenus multigenus nothogenus oogenus plurigenus pseudogenus summum genus type genus
相关词
gender general generate generation generic genocide genre infrageneric differentia domain kingdom phylum division class order family supergenus subgenus section series species

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Italic *genos
Latin genusbor.
English genus
Borrowed from Latin genus (“birth, origin, a race, sort, kind”) from the root gen- in Latin gignō (“to beget, produce”). Doublet of gender and genre, further related to kin.
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