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genus

[jee-nuhs] / ˈdʒi nəs /


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Researchers also established the new genus Laurinque specifically for the species.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Together, the genus and species names reflect what the researchers described as an almost mystical elvish landscape on the deep ocean floor.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

The plant was growing at an elevation of nearly 1,000 meters, an unusually high and seasonally dry environment for members of the genus.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

He lists a particular genus of moths christened Eucosoma bobana followed by E. cocana, E. dodana, E. fofana and so on, in singalong fashion for 23 more variations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Humans first evolved in East Africa about 2.5 million years ago from an earlier genus of apes called Australopithecus, which means ‘Southern Ape’.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

For example, the same bacterial genera showed glyphosate resistance across all three environments.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026

In the end, the team used data from about 60 percent of all modern genera of plants.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2024

Using this method, the team sequenced part of the nuclear genomes from about 8000 genera of angiosperms—about 60% of all flowering plants on Earth—and compared 353 of their genes.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 23, 2024

This has likely kept gar genomes so stable that species and even genera whose last common ancestor lived more than 100 million years ago have diverged very little.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 8, 2024

At the time of the Cognitive Revolution, the planet was home to about 200 genera of large terrestrial mammals weighing over 100 pounds.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Almost 300 biologists have banded together and redrawn the tree of life for flowering plants, enabling a 15-fold increase in the number of genuses represented and highlighting new milestones in diversification.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024

This uncanny deadliness has a mystery at its core: These mushrooms are from three separate genuses, or groups of fungal species, that are not closely related.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2022

Anemone and Aster are large genuses in their own right, filled with poppy- and daisy-like blooms.

From Slate ● May 17, 2016

Paleontologists have documented five new genuses of dinosaurs and six previously unknown species since research began in the 1980s in partnership with French scientists.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2010

Then I goes to the old 'uns, and says to them, what genuses for music these young 'uns be! it is your duty to improve a talent that providence has bestowed on your children.

From Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Susanna Moodie




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