Synonyms for genus
ˈdʒi nəs; ˈdʒɛn ər əgenus

Princeton's WordNet

1. genusnoun

   a general kind of something

   "ignore the genus communism"

2. genusnoun

   (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species

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1. genusnoun

   Synonyms:
   group (subordinate to a class, tribe, or order), assemblage of species

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1. List of paraphrases for "genus":

   kind, type, genre, sort, gender, like, types

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1. Joseph Weizenbaum:

   Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the furture, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns.

2. Steve Salisbury:

   The genus name, Thapunngaka, incorporates thapun [ ta-boon ] and ngaka [ nga-ga ], the Wanamara words for' spear' and' mouth', respectively, the species name, shawi, honours the fossil's discoverer Len Shaw, so the name means' Shaw's spear mouth'.

3. Emanuel Tschopp:

   We found that the differences between the genus Brontosaurus and the genus Apatosaurus are so numerous that they should be kept apart as two different genera.

4. Daniel Sandweiss:

   Humans have such a large and sometimes unexpected influence on economies and ecosystems, the squash we have today are remaining representatives of this genus of plant which otherwise would have been in trouble for survival because of the changing landscape.

5. Brian Villmoare:

   At 2.8 million years ago, this places the evolution of our genus very close to 3.0 million years ago, which is when we last see Lucy's species.