opinionative

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Genus: an assemblage of species agreeing in some one character or series of characters; usually considered as arbitrary and opinionative, though some consider it a natural assemblage.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

Wolfe Tone declared him to be by far the most impudent and opinionative fellow that he had ever known in his life.

From Burke by Morley, John

The opinionative islander turned the still vibrating scale by pulling out a long purse and repeating his original theory, that the whole question was mercantile.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles

She was the least selfish of human beings, the least opinionative, the most good-natured.

From The Bertrams by Trollope, Anthony

Subfamily: a division of classification containing a group of closely allied genera; different from other allied groups, yet not so as to make a family series: opinionative, and ending in -inae.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.