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  • noun nonstandard Plural form of genus.

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Examples

  • "The children like to hear themselves called genuses, and they go into it like smoke.

    Life in the Clearings versus the Bush Susanna Moodie 1844

  • My hat is off to the genuses that have adopted Mike and I look forward to more of the word ......

    Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself 2006

  • Genus names change - not species or common names - entire genuses.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Field Notes 2007

  • Genus names change - not species or common names - entire genuses.

    Exotic Bird Identification Field Notes 2007

  • Poultry act as hosts for many different species of biting lice belonging to the following genuses: _Lipiurus, Goniodes, Goniocotes_ and _Menopon_.

    Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

  • Several genuses of fungi, as well as several species, are named after Tulasne, as Tulasneinia, Tulasnella.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • Giordano Bruno took sides against the makers of rules, saying that the rules came from the poetry, and "therefore there are as many genuses and species of true rules as there are genuses and species of true poets."

    Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909

  • And, by the guidance principally of the great Martino Delrio (a leader of the science), he was capable of discoursing ex professo upon the fascination of love, the fascination of sleep, the fascination of hatred, and the infinite varieties of these three principal genuses of enchantment, which are only too often, again says our anonymous author, beheld in practice at the present day, attended by such lamentable effects.

    Chapter XXVII 1909

  • The large tribe, of the marmots, which includes the three large genuses of Arctomys, Cynomys, and Spermophilus, is still more sociable and still more intelligent.

    Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881

  • Then I goes to the old 'uns, and says to them, what genuses for music these young' uns be! it is your duty to improve a talent that providence has bestowed on your children.

    Life in the Clearings versus the Bush Susanna Moodie 1844

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