How to Use genus in a Sentence

genus

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• Daikon and red radishes are from the same genus and species.
  — Yejin Choi, Bon Appétit, 11 Aug. 2022
• The name Osmia is the genus of 242 species of solitary bees.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 24 June 2023
• And there wasn’t just one species in this iconic genus.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2023
• The genus is best described as the family the plant is part of.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 20 Aug. 2022
• There are nearly 50 species of plants in the Monstera genus.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 30 Aug. 2023
• And few are more distinct than those in the genus Leptonetela.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2023
• The health effects are dependent on the genus, species and strain of the microbe.
  — Valerie Agyeman, Good Housekeeping, 22 Nov. 2022
• Devil's claw is the name for the Harpagophytum genus (group) of plants.
  — Verywell Health, 21 Feb. 2023
• For the record, the dinner-only eatery was named after the genus of a species of six birds of paradise.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2023
• While Alaskapox belongs to the same genus as smallpox, the two appear to share few traits.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2021
• This creature, the first of its genus, is thought to have weighed about a ton and measured about 24 feet in length at one time.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2023
• Still, in the end, the massive sperm whale — the largest living member of the toothed whale genus — usually wins.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2023
• And a new species of Adamsiana, a related genus, was spotted in Guatemala in 2020.
  — Emily Schmall, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• The genus is known to feed on deadwood, dead leaves, leaf litter or lichens, according to Hoare.
  — Rina Diane Caballar, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
• The leaf of the giant waterlily, which belongs to one of three species in the Victoria genus, can support a weight of at least 176 pounds.
  — Amarachi Orie, CNN, 4 July 2022
• Colden was the first in America to employ the system, which assigns a genus and species to each plant.
  — Jessica Damiano, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2024
• So far, a total of nineteen extant and four fossil species of the genus have been described.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Aug. 2022
• First discovered in the mountains of northern China more than 5,000 years ago, ginseng comes from the root of plants in the genus Panax.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
• Researchers determined that the spider belongs to a new genus and species.
  — NBC News, 21 Jan. 2022
• Narcissus is the genus that daffodils belong to, so this month shares a flower with March.
  — Jenny Krane, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Nov. 2022
• The newly unearthed genus, named Guangdedendron, lived when trees were starting to put down roots around the world.
  — Scott Elder, National Geographic, 14 May 2022
• Ground cherries are in the genus Physalis for those keeping track of Latin names, which is the same genus as the tomatillo and part of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family.
  — Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
• The two specimens also belong to a new genus and species named Feredocodon chowi.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2024
• The Shonisaurus genus, in particular, grew to be some of the largest marine predators around.
  — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2022
• Male fireflies from the genus Photinus flash to attract mates.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• Daigle said states test for orthopoxvirus, the genus to which monkeypox belongs, according to the CDC.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 24 May 2022
• Red deer and elk share the same genus and can interbreed even though they are found in the wild on two different continents.
  — Parish Howard, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021
• The bacteria belong to a genus called Vibrio, which includes more than 100 species.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 6 June 2023
• The role of another common species in the same genus, L. iners, is less understood.
  — Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 6 Dec. 2023
• Along with the most prominent time period, the genus with the most fossils is provided for each slide.
  — al, 14 June 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024