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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of genus.

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  • noun plural See genus.

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  • noun Plural form of genus.

Etymologies

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From Latin genera, clans.

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Examples

  • Besides these modes, the Greeks had what they called genera, of which there were three -- the diatonic, to which the examples already given belong; the chromatic, in which the tetrachord had the form of mi, fa, fi, la, the interval between the two upper tones being equal to a step and a half; and the enharmonic, in which the first two intervals were one-quarter of a step and the upper one a major third.

    A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874

  • The new name for the sub genera is a IIWBETOSISTTCOEBNWHAPSAKOTC which stands for:

    SF Tidbits for 6/22/06 2006

  • On this idea of the natural system being, in so far as it has been perfected, genealogical in its arrangement, with the grades of difference between the descendants from a common parent, expressed by the terms genera, families, orders, &c., we can understand the rules which we are compelled to follow in our classification.

    Essentialisms in Biology (II) 2006

  • On this idea of the natural system being, in so far as it has been perfected, genealogical in its arrangement, with the grades of difference between the descendants from a common parent, expressed by the terms genera, families, orders, &c., we can understand the rules which we are compelled to follow in our classification.

    Archive 2005-03-01 2005

  • On this idea of the natural system being, in so far as it has been perfected, genealogical in its arrangement, with the grades of difference between the descendants from a common parent, expressed by the terms genera, families, orders, &c., we can understand the rules which we are compelled to follow in our classification.

    Darwin's Logic: The Master Argument 2005

  • On this idea of the natural system being, in so far as it has been perfected, genealogical in its arrangement, with the grades of difference between the descendants from a common parent, expressed by the terms genera, families, orders, &c., we can understand the rules which we are compelled to follow in our classification.

    Darwin's Logic: Preliminaries: Vera Causa 2005

  • On this idea of the natural system being, in so far as it has been perfected, genealogical in its arrangement, with the grades of difference between the descendants from a common parent, expressed by the terms genera, families, orders, &c., we can understand the rules which we are compelled to follow in our classification.

    Archive 2005-02-01 2005

  • On this idea of the natural system, being, in so far as it has been perfected, genealogical in its arrangement, with the grades of difference expressed by the terms genera, families, orders, &c., we can understand the rules which we are compelled to follow in our classification.

    XIV. Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology-Embryology-Rudimentary Organs. On the Nature of the Affinities Connecting Organic Beings 1909

  • On this idea of the natural system being, in so far as it has been perfected, genealogical in its arrangement, with the grades of difference between the descendants from a common parent, expressed by the terms genera, families, orders, etc., we can understand the rules which we are compelled to follow in our classification.

    On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 13 (historical) Charles Darwin 1859

  • On this idea of the natural system being, in so far as it has been perfected, genealogical in its arrangement, with the grades of difference between the descendants from a common parent, expressed by the terms genera, families, orders, &c., we can understand the rules which we are compelled to follow in our classification.

    On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life 1859

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