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5-letter words (2 found)

GENUS,NEGUS,

4-letter words (10 found)

ENGS,GENS,GENU,GNUS,GUES,GUNS,NEGS,NUGS,SNUG,SUNG,

3-letter words (18 found)

ENG,ENS,GEN,GNU,GUE,GUN,GUS,NEG,NUG,NUS,SEG,SEN,SUE,SUG,SUN,UGS,UNS,USE,

2-letter words (8 found)

EN,ES,GU,NE,NU,UG,UN,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 39 words from genus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of genus

genus egnus gneus ngeus engus negus geuns eguns guens ugens eugns uegns gnues ngues gunes ugnes nuges unges enugs neugs eungs uengs nuegs unegs gensu egnsu gnesu ngesu engsu negsu gesnu egsnu gsenu sgenu esgnu segnu gnseu ngseu gsneu sgneu nsgeu sngeu ensgu nesgu esngu sengu nsegu snegu geusn egusn guesn ugesn eugsn uegsn gesun egsun gseun sgeun esgun segun gusen ugsen gsuen sguen usgen sugen eusgn uesgn esugn seugn usegn suegn gnuse nguse gunse ugnse nugse ungse gnsue ngsue gsnue sgnue nsgue sngue gusne ugsne gsune sgune usgne sugne nusge unsge nsuge snuge usnge sunge enusg neusg eunsg uensg nuesg unesg ensug nesug esnug senug nseug sneug eusng uesng esung seung useng sueng nuseg unseg nsueg snueg usneg suneg

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Definitions and meaning of genus

genus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin genus (“birth, origin, a race, sort, kind”) from the root gen- in Latin gignō (“to beget, produce”). Doublet of gender, genre, and kin.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: jēn’-əs, jĕn’-əs, IPA(key): /ˈdʒiːnəs/, /ˈdʒɛnəs/
  • (US) enPR: jēn’-əs, IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒiːnəs/
  • Rhymes: -iːnəs

Noun

genus (plural genera or (both nonstandard) genuses or genusses)

  2. (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
    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.
    1. A taxon at this rank.
  4. A group with common attributes.
  6. (topology, graph theory, algebraic geometry) A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
  8. (semantics) Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
  10. (music) A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.

Usage notes

  • (biology, taxonomy, rank in the classification of organisms): See generic name, binomial nomenclature.
  • Do not confuse a genus of things with the genius of things.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:class

Hyponyms

  • (topology, graph theory): Euler genus
  • (music): chromatic, diatonic, enharmonic (genus)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

  • (semantics): differentia
  • (biological taxa):
  • domain
  • kingdom
  • phylum/division
  • class
  • order
  • family
  • supergenus
  • genus
    • subgenus, section, series
  • species

Further reading

  • “genus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “genus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Negus, negus

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin genus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡeːnus/, [ˈɡ̊eːnus]

Noun

genus n (plural indefinite genus or genera)

  1. (biology, taxonomy) genus
    Synonym: slægt
  2. (grammar) gender
    Synonym: køn

Further reading

  • genus on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin genus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɣeː.nʏs/
  • Hyphenation: ge‧nus

Noun

genus n (plural genera)

  1. (botany) a rank in a taxonomic classification, in between family and species.
    Synonym: geslacht
  2. (botany) a taxon at this rank
    Synonym: geslacht
  3. (linguistics) gender
    Synonym: geslacht

Derived terms

  • subgenus
  • supergenus

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin genus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡenus/, [ˈɡe̞nus̠]
  • Rhymes: -enus
  • Syllabification(key): ge‧nus

Noun

genus

  1. (botany) Synonym of suku (“genus”)
  2. (topology) genus
    Synonym: suku

Declension

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *genos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os n (“race”), from the root *ǵenh₁- (“to produce, beget”); compare also gēns, gignō and -gnus, from the same root. Cognates include Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, stock, kin, kind”), Sanskrit जनस् (jánas, “race, class of beings”), Proto-Celtic *genos (“birth; family”), and English kin. Doublet of genea.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡe.nus/, [ˈɡɛnʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒe.nus/, [ˈd͡ʒɛːnus]

Noun

genus n (genitive generis); third declension

  1. birth, origin, lineage, descent
  2. kind, type, class
  3. species (of animal or plant), race (of people)
  4. set, group (with common attributes)
  5. (grammar) gender
    • 6th century, Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (attributed): Commentarium de oratione et de octo partibus orationis. In: „Patrologiae cursus completus sive Bibliotheca universalis, integra, uniformis, commoda, oeconomica, omnium ss. patrum, doctorum scriptorumque ecclesiasticorum qui ab aevo apostolico ad innocentii III tempora floruerunt; […] . Series prima, in qua prodeunt patres, doctores scriptoresque ecclesiae latinae a tertulliano ad gregorium magnum. Accurante J.-P. Migne, cursuum completorum in singulos scientiae ecclesiaticae ramos editore. Patrologiae tomus LXX. Cassiodori tomus posterior. – Magni Aurelii Cassiodori senatoris, viri patricii, consularis, et vivariensis abbatis opera omnia in duos tomos distributa, ad fidem manuscriptiorum codicum emendata et aucta, notis, observationibus et indicibus locupletata, praecedente auctoris vita, quae nunc primum in lucem prodit cum dissertatione de ejus monarchatu. Opera et studio J. Garetii monarchi ordinis sancti Benedicti e congregatione sancti mauri. Nobis autem curantibus accesserunt complexiones in epistolas b. Pauli quas edidit et annotavit scipio Maffeius. Tomus posterior. – Parisiis, venit apud editorem, in via dicta d'amboise, près la barriere d'enfer, ou petit-montrouge. 1847“, p. 1225
    • 16th century, Andreas Semperius (a.k.a. Andreas Sampere, Andreu Sempere): Andreae Semperii Valentini Alcodiani, doctoris medici, prima grammaticae latinae institutio tribus libris explicata, Majorca/Mallorca, 1819, p.19
  6. (grammar) subtype of word
Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Hyponyms
  • (grammar, genera nominum): [genus] fēminīnum, [genus] masculīnum, [genus] neutrum, genus commūne, genus omne
  • (grammar, genera verborum): [genus] āctīvum, [genus] passīvum, [genus] neutrum, [genus] commūne, [genus] dēpōnēns, [genus] medium
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡe.nuːs/, [ˈɡɛnuːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒe.nus/, [ˈd͡ʒɛːnus]

Noun

genūs

  1. genitive singular of genū

References

  • “genus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “genus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • genus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin genus.

Noun

genus m or n (definite singular genusen or genuset, indefinite plural genera or genus, definite plural genera or generaa or genusa or genusane)

  1. (biology, taxonomy) genus
  2. (grammar) gender
  3. (grammar) voice

References

  • “genus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin genus.

Noun

genus n

  1. (grammar) gender (division of nouns and pronouns)
  2. (social) gender, sex (social issues of being man or woman)

Usage notes

  • Biological gender is called kön. The Latin word genus is used for grammar and more recently for gender studies.

Declension

Synonyms

  • (grammar): kön

Related terms

References

  • genus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

  • sugen, unges

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