(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").
实用例句
1. The daffodil belongs to the genus Narcissus.
黄水仙是水仙属植物.
来自《简明英汉词典》
2. This genus of plants differentiate into many species.
这种植物可区分为许多种类.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. This genus of plants differentiates into many species.
这种植物可分为许多种类.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. A genus is superior to a species.
(生物学上的)属比种范围广.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
5. It inhabits a larger area than the megascolecid genus Pheretinca.