Genera [noun]

Fourteen genera, representing about 19 species, of Mallophaga are reported for 20 different species of bird hosts.

His hero, Gulliver, discovers race after race of beings who typify the genera in his classification of mankind.

The belly and lower surface of the tail are covered with large six-sided scales, like the other genera of the family.

But the structure of these two genera admits likewise of another explanation, to which I have already adverted.

Mallei and hyoid bones of the genera and subgenera of the chipmunks were mostly studied in the dry state.

It is unnecessary therefore to suppose (as Dr. Wessely and M. Ruelle do) that the scale exhibits a mixture of different genera.

Very few of the genera of plants, or even of the families, can be pronounced with certainty to be Kinds.

But the different species of a genus, or genera of a family, usually have in common only a limited number of characters.

Each of the genera has its name, and the species are marked by the addition of some epithet to the name of the genus.

They are referable to those generally extinct genera that inhabited the great depths of the primeval ocean.