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genus
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    The genus Begonia contains about 1000 species.
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    Some critics argue that horror is a distinct genus of storytelling with its own rules and rhythms.
    genus = category or kind
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    Or it is a small plant of the genus Veronia.  (source)
    genus = biological group
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    There are many of that genus here, but this particular species usually inhabits regions south of this latitude because these waters are too cool for them.  (source)
    genus = a related group of animal or plant species
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    There are something like three hundred genera of dinosaurs known so far.  (source)
    genera = biological groups
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    The boundaries between the various genuses and species in nature are another example of the same truth.†  (source)
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    Marie-Laure is not a collector in the way that Dr. Geffard was, an amasser, always looking to scurry down the scales of order, family, genus, species, and subspecies.  (source)
    genus = biological group below family and above species
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    Two genera tions had built what I saw; and I mourned for that lost labour.†  (source)
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    Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.  (source)
    Genus = a related group of animal or plant species
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    It was as if they were powered by some massive underground genera-tor that powered fluorescent chemicals in large tubes made to look like trees.†  (source)
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    There are some fifty varieties of toxic locoweeds, the bulk of which are in the genus Astragalus, a genus very closely related to Hedysarum.†  (source)
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    Genera Epanchin alone determined to depart.†  (source)
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    She was a new and unknown genus, and we were thrilled to be able to name her, and to put her on display in all her rareness.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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I know evrybody feels sorry for me at the bakery and I dont want that eather so Im going someplace where they are a lot of other pepul like me and nobody cares that Charlie Gordon was once a genus and now he cant even reed a book or rite good.  (source)
genus = intentional misspelling
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