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[Plural] noun- A class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic. Also: A class of objects divided into several subordinate species.

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  • Genus names change - not species or common names - entire genuses.
  • My hat is off to the genuses that have adopted Mike and I look forward to more of the word ......
  • I didn't know he knew his trilobite genuses (geni?) but I am NOT surprised!
  • Are they really genuses? or are they, still, ravenously greedy so that every
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