Genuses

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    plural of genus form-of, nonstandard, plural

    "The creators of the griffin — half eagle, half lion — were early paleontologists who didn’t quite have their genuses straight and put the fossilized bones in the wrong place."

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antonomasiabinomial nomenclaturebiosystematicsbiosystematybiotypeblood

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"The creators of the griffin — half eagle, half lion — were early paleontologists who didn’t quite have their genuses straight and put the fossilized bones in the wrong place."

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