• n. 類，種；[生物] 屬

來自詞根gen, 生育，詞源同generate. 用于科學術語。

genus

genus: see general

genus (n.)

(plural genera), 1550s as a term of logic, "kind or class of things" (biological sense dates from c. 1600), from Latin genus (genitive generis) "race, stock, kind; family, birth, descent, origin," from PIE root *gene- "to produce, give birth, beget," with derivatives referring to family and tribal groups.

Cognates in this highly productive word group include Sanskrit janati "begets, bears," janah "race," janman- "birth, origin," jatah "born;" Avestan zizanenti "they bear;" Greek gignesthai "to become, happen," genos "race, kind," gonos "birth, offspring, stock;" Latin gignere "to beget," gnasci "to be born," genius "procreative divinity, inborn tutelary spirit, innate quality," ingenium "inborn character," possibly germen "shoot, bud, embryo, germ;" Lithuanian gentis "kinsmen;" Gothic kuni "race;" Old English cennan "beget, create," gecynd "kind, nature, race;" Old High German kind "child;" Old Irish ro-genar "I was born;" Welsh geni "to be born;" Armenian chanim "I bear, I am born").

1. The daffodil belongs to the genus Narcissus.

黃水仙是水仙屬植物.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. This genus of plants differentiate into many species.

這種植物可區分為許多種類.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. This genus of plants differentiates into many species.

這種植物可分為許多種類.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. A genus is superior to a species.

(生物學上的)屬比種范圍廣.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

5. It inhabits a larger area than the megascolecid genus Pheretinca.

它較巨蠕蚓類中環毛蚓屬的分布區域大.

來自辭典例句