How to Use genus in a Sentence
genus
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Whale sharks, the largest of the genus, can reach up to 33 feet.
— Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2018 -
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 -
In Page’s lab, upper-case Cannabis refers to the genus and lower-case refers to the plant.
— Angela Chen, The Verge, 19 Apr. 2018 -
The genus name Prunus is from the Latin, meaning plum or cherry.
— Earl Nickel, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2018 -
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 -
About that Latin name: the genus name Aegolius is a type of screech owl thought to be a bird of ill omen.
— Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2018 -
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 -
Its structure stood out from others in the genus, Fau said.
— Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 17 May 2024 -
There are close to 150 species of sunflowers in the genus Helianthus.
— Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Oct. 2024 -
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 -
All names have to have a combination of a genus name, which comes first, and a species name.
— Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 1 July 2019 -
The garden rhubarb with which those strawberry-rhubarb pies are made is one plant of the genus Rheum.
— John E. McIntyre, baltimoresun.com, 19 June 2018 -
Each envelope had the name of a cactus genus written on the front.
— Zoë Schlanger, Quartz, 3 July 2019 -
That changed with the appearance of a genus, now a single species, that could start fire at will: ours.
— Stephen Pyne, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024 -
The snuffbox is the most widespread of the Epioblasma genus of mussels.
— Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 15 Aug. 2024 -
The genus of spiders known as Ariamnes has always been known to have a few tricks up its sleeve.
— Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 12 Mar. 2018 -
The genus has been described as containing up to 600 species.
— Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2020 -
According to the fossil record, the Dimetrodon genus went extinct around the end of the Cisuralian epoch in the Permian.
— Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2024 -
The pit vipers in the genus Trimeresurus are venomous, and found throughout East and Southeast Asia.
— Leah Asmelash, CNN, 21 Apr. 2020 -
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 -
It’s thought to have split from other species about 40 million years ago and is the only species in its genus.
— Patricia Edmonds, National Geographic, 6 Aug. 2020 -
For the record, red yuccas are not true yuccas, but in the genus Hesperaloe.
— Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 12 Dec. 2019 -
Frankincense is made from the milky sap of trees in the Boswelia genus, found mainly in wild trees in Africa and India.
— Alex Fox, Science | AAAS, 1 July 2019
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