Usually means: Taxonomic category above species level.
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We found 55 dictionaries that define the word genus:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. genus: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. genus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. genus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. genus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. genus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Genus, genus: Wordnik
  7. genus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. genus: Wiktionary
  9. genus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. genus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. genus: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. genus: Dictionary.com
  13. genus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. genus: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Genus (biology), Genus (comic), Genus (comics), Genus (disambiguation), Genus (linguistics), Genus (mathematics), Genus (music), Genus (philosophy), Genus (topology), Genus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. genus: Rhymezone
  17. Genus (nt), Genus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. genus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. genus: Free Dictionary
  20. genus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. genus: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. genus: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. Genus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  24. genus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. genus: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Genus (biology), genus: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Genus (biology), genus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  4. Genus (biology), genus: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. genus: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Bird On! (No longer online)
  4. ORCHID GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  5. Genus: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  6. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  7. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  8. genus: Rhododendron Glossary
  9. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  10. Genus: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  11. genus (plural genera): Evolution Glossary
  12. genus, genus: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  13. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  14. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)
  15. genus: Natural History Terms
  16. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Genus: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. genus: Canadian Soil Information System

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
▸ noun:  A taxon at this rank.
▸ noun:  A group with common attributes.
▸ noun:  (topology, graph theory, algebraic geometry) A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
▸ noun:  (semantics) Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
▸ noun:  (music) A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.

Similar:
knee, articulatio genus, knee joint, family, species, ordo, order, tribe, divisio, classis, more...

Opposite:
species, individual, member, particular, specific

Types:
family, class, order, phylum, kingdom, more...

Phrases:
genus homo, genus name, Type genus, genus bacillus, genus pseudomonas, more...

Adjectives:
same, new, single, large, small, separate, distinct, common, only, latter, whole


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Similar:
knee, articulatio genus, knee joint, family, species, ordo, order, tribe, divisio, classis, more...

Opposite:
species, individual, member, particular, specific

Types:
family, class, order, phylum, kingdom, more...

Phrases:
genus homo, genus name, Type genus, genus bacillus, genus pseudomonas, genus clostridium, genus drosophila, genus australopithecus, plant genus, genus plasmodium, genus salmonella, genus pinus, more...

Adjectives:
same, new, single, large, small, separate, distinct, common, only, latter, whole



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