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nouna general kind of something
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noun(biology) taxonomic group containing one or more speciestype of:
Definition that contains genus
- lens genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils
- felicia genus of tropical African herbs or subshrubs with usually blue flowers
- anemia genus of terrestrial or lithophytic ferns having pinnatifid fronds; chiefly of tropical America
- phallus genus of fungi having the cap or pileus hanging free around the stem
- aspergillus genus of common molds causing food spoilage and some pathogenic to plants and animals
- virgilia genus of South African trees having pinnate leaves and rose-purple flowers followed by leathery pods
- fabiana genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs
- scleroderma genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false truffles
- aconitum genus of poisonous plants of temperate regions of northern hemisphere with a vaulted and enlarged petal
- gerbera genus of South African or Asiatic herbs: African daisies