genus
英 ['d?i?n?s; 'd?en?s]
美['d?in?s]
- n. 類，種；[生物] 屬
GRE擴展詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
復數(shù):?genera;
中文詞源
genus 屬
來自詞根gen, 生育，詞源同generate. 用于科學術語。
英文詞源
- genus
- genus: see general
- genus (n.)
- (plural genera), 1550s as a term of logic, "kind or class of things" (biological sense dates from c. 1600), from Latin genus (genitive generis) "race, stock, kind; family, birth, descent, origin," from PIE root *gene- "to produce, give birth, beget," with derivatives referring to family and tribal groups.
Cognates in this highly productive word group include Sanskrit janati "begets, bears," janah "race," janman- "birth, origin," jatah "born;" Avestan zizanenti "they bear;" Greek gignesthai "to become, happen," genos "race, kind," gonos "birth, offspring, stock;" Latin gignere "to beget," gnasci "to be born," genius "procreative divinity, inborn tutelary spirit, innate quality," ingenium "inborn character," possibly germen "shoot, bud, embryo, germ;" Lithuanian gentis "kinsmen;" Gothic kuni "race;" Old English cennan "beget, create," gecynd "kind, nature, race;" Old High German kind "child;" Old Irish ro-genar "I was born;" Welsh geni "to be born;" Armenian chanim "I bear, I am born").
雙語例句
- 1. The daffodil belongs to the genus Narcissus.
- 黃水仙是水仙屬植物.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. This genus of plants differentiate into many species.
- 這種植物可區(qū)分為許多種類.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. This genus of plants differentiates into many species.
- 這種植物可分為許多種類.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. A genus is superior to a species.
- (生物學上的)屬比種范圍廣.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 5. It inhabits a larger area than the megascolecid genus Pheretinca.
- 它較巨蠕蚓類中環(huán)毛蚓屬的分布區(qū)域大.
來自辭典例句