genuses
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Almost 300 biologists have banded together and redrawn the tree of life for flowering plants, enabling a 15-fold increase in the number of genuses represented and highlighting new milestones in diversification.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 24, 2024
This uncanny deadliness has a mystery at its core: These mushrooms are from three separate genuses, or groups of fungal species, that are not closely related.
From New York Times • May 9, 2022
Anemone and Aster are large genuses in their own right, filled with poppy- and daisy-like blooms.
From Slate • May 17, 2016
Paleontologists have documented five new genuses of dinosaurs and six previously unknown species since research began in the 1980s in partnership with French scientists.
From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2010
The children like to hear themselves called genuses, and they go into it like smoke.
From Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Moodie, Susanna
