genus

• n. クラス、種; [生物] 属

科学用語で使われる。

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").

1. The daffodil belongs to the genus Narcissus.

黄水仙は水仙属の植物である。

2.This genus of plants differentiate into many species.

この植物は多くの種類に区別されます。

3.This genus of plants differentiates into many species.

この植物は多くの種類に分けることができます。dd>

4.A genus is superior to a species.

（生物学的）属比種範囲は広い。

5.It inhabits a larger area than the megascolecid genus Pheretinca.

巨大クリープミズ類における環毛ミズ属の分布領域よりも大きい。