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genus

英 ['dʒiːnəs; 'dʒenəs]美['dʒinəs]
  • n. 类,种;[生物] 属

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词态变化


复数: genera;

中文词源


genus

来自词根gen, 生育,词源同generate. 用于科学术语。

英文词源


genus
genus: see general
genus (n.)
(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").

双语例句


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.
它较巨蠕蚓类中环毛蚓属的分布区域大.

来自辞典例句

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