Noun
The word is derived from genus
See Genus.
of Genus
Source: Webster's dictionaryWe say there are as many genera as there are similarly constituted fructifications of different natural species. Carl Linnaeus
I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families. Asa Gray
The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads. John Moody
We may understand why the species of the same genus, or genera of the same family, resemble each other more nearly in their embryonic than in their more fully developed state, or how it is that. Charles Lyell
Darwin's statements concerning hybrids of the genera. Gregor Mendel
Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms. George Gaylord Simpson