32 Verbs to Use for the Word genus

He had found an unknown bivalve, forming a new genus, and, more than this, he had hunted down and secured, with Jupiter's assistance, a scarabæus which he believed to be totally new, but in respect to which he wished to have my opinion on the morrow.

We are told by this gentleman, (in language incorrigibly bad,) that, "Nouns which denote the genus, species, or variety of beings or things, are always common; as, tree, the genus; oak, ash, chestnut, poplar, different species; and red oak, white oak, black oak, varieties."Ib., p. 32.

Normally, in defining a noun you should assign the thing named to a general class, and to its special limits within that class; in other words, you should designate its genus and species.

You will, in most instances, first indicate the genus and then the species, but at your convenience you may indicate the species first.

Here, the woman gave herself certain airs, endeavoured to blush, did look at the carpet with a studied modesty that might have deceived one who did not know the genus, and announced her intention to get married, too, at the end of the present month.

But they explain by saying that it means a genus.

Louis Bonaparte has created a special genus.

" KEY TO THE GENERA This key, in illustrating each genus, follows the method of Clute in "Our Ferns in Their Haunts," but substitutes other and larger specimens.

Nor, indeed, without having studied in the schools of philosophers, can we discern the genus and species of everything; nor explain them by proper definitions; nor distribute them into their proper divisions; nor decide what is true and what is false; nor discern consequences, perceive inconsistencies, and distinguish what is doubtful.

Lord Kames observes, "That quality, which distinguishes one genus, one species, or even one individual, from an other, is termed a modification: thus the same particular that is termed a property or quality, when considered as belonging to an individual, or a class of individuals, is termed a modification, when considered as distinguishing the individual or the class from an other.

The first description of the tree we owe to Humboldt and Bonpland, who established the genus and species in the botanical part of the account of their voyage.

To find a new genus of mammalian quadrupeds was an event which delighted Mr. Heller far more than shooting a dozen bears.

If they be sober, wise, honest, as the poet infers, "Si commodos nanciscantur amores, Nullum iis abest voluptatis genus.

If on the other hand you affirm, "A cigar is a roll of tobacco-leaves meant for smoking," you first designate the species and then merely imply the genus.

The word generic presupposes a genus, that is to say, a collection of individuals who have much in common, and among whom medium characteristics are very much more frequent than extreme ones.

This fine hardy shrub is perhaps best known under the name of Pterostyrax, but we think gardeners will, quite independently of botanical grounds, be inclined to thank Messrs. Bentham and Hooker for reducing the genus to the more easily remembered name of Halesia.

They are necessary evils, and for our own ends we must make use of them to have issue, Supplet Venus ac restituit humanum genus, and to propagate the church.

In defining nouns by the genus-and-species method, restrict the genus to the narrowest possible bounds.

By the mass, I fear me, I saw this genus and species in Cambridge before now: I'll take no notice of him now.

Usually there is little difficulty in selecting the genus, still care should be taken to select one that includes the term to be defined.

M. Jussieu associated them with Rhizophora, in the second section of this order, from which Mr. Brown has separated this latter genus, and with two others found in Terra Australis, has constructed a distinct family, named Rhizophoreae; suggesting, at the same time, the analogy of Loranthus and Viscum to Santalaceae, and particularly to Proteaceae.

[3720]"If fortune hath envied me wealth, thieves have robbed me, my father have not left me such revenues as others have," that I am a younger brother, basely born,cui sine luce genus, surdumque parentumnomen, of mean parentage, a dirt-dauber's son, am I therefore to be blamed?

Many slack and careless parents, iniqui patres, measure their children's affections by their own, they are now cold and decrepit themselves, past all such youthful conceits, and they will therefore starve their children's genus, have them a pueris illico nasci senes, they must not marry, nec earum affines esse rerum

Ego deum genus esse semper dixi et dicam coelitum, Sed eos non curare opinor quid agat humanum genus.]

Among them were curious flat cake-urchins, with oval holes punched in them, so brittle that, in spite of all our care, they resolved themselves into the loose sand of which they had been originally compact; and I could therefore verify neither their genus nor their species.

32 Verbs to Use for the Word  genus