genus in All languages combined

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "genus",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "genera",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "2": "genera"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Biology",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Technical",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Sweet William belongs to the genus Dianthus."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "When scientists classify living things, a genus is one group. One genus usually includes a variety of species, and a number of genera are usually grouped together in one family."
      ],
      "id": "simple-genus-en-noun-yWL3h3~K",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable",
        "technical",
        "biology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "jēn'əs",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdʒiːnəs/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "sampa": "/\"dZi:n@s/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-genus.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "genus"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "genus",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "genera",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "2": "genera"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Biology",
        "Countable nouns",
        "Technical"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Sweet William belongs to the genus Dianthus."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "When scientists classify living things, a genus is one group. One genus usually includes a variety of species, and a number of genera are usually grouped together in one family."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable",
        "technical",
        "biology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "jēn'əs",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdʒiːnəs/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "sampa": "/\"dZi:n@s/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-genus.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "genus"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-18 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (e4a2c88 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"genus" meaning in All languages combined

Noun [English]