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"Genus" in a Sentence (17 examples)
The biologist classifies the newly found species in its own genus, whereas other taxonomists want to put it into an established genus.
In many ways, these fossils are the 'smoking gun' just before the emergence of our own genus.
The yellow-eyed penguin is the sole extant species in the genus Megadyptes.
The Sargasso Sea is a vast patch of ocean named for a genus of free-floating seaweed called Sargassum.
Whortleberry may refer to the berries of several plants of genus Vaccinium.
Wolves and dogs are animals from the same genus, but different species.
Elasmosaurs are a genus of plesiosaur that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous.
Zaila Avant-garde, 14, jumped and twirled with joy upon being declared the winner after nailing the spelling of “murraya,” a genus of tropical Asiatic and Australian citrus trees.
The centipede, dubbed Nannarrup hoffmanni in honor of Dr. Richard Hoffman of the Virginia Museum of Natural History, actually constitutes a new genus.
The need of the mycologist, mycophagist and amateur toadstool student is a book giving the genus, names and descriptions of the prominent American toadstools whose edibility has been tested, or whose poisonous qualities have been discovered.
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All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.
Other species of the genus Bos are often called cattle or wild cattle.
There are only two genera and species of seadragons.
Müller […] criticized the division of the "Jubuleae" into two families and he cited Jubula as an annectant genus.
Other maloid genera with hard nutlets are Cotoneaster, Hesperomeles, Osteomeles, and Pyracantba, but each of these is quite different from Mespilus and Crataegus.
In most cases, at subsequent mentions of the binomial name you can abbreviate the genus with no danger of confusing the reader.
Recollection is one of a whole genus of effects which are more or less peculiar to the phenomena that we naturally call "mental."
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