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TYPE GENUS

Pronunciation (US):

• TYPE GENUS (noun)
The noun TYPE GENUS has 1 sense:

1. (biology) genus from which the name of a family or subfamily is formed; it is not necessarily the most representative genus but often the largest or best known or earliest described

Familiarity information: TYPE GENUS used as a noun is very rare.

• TYPE GENUS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(biology) genus from which the name of a family or subfamily is formed; it is not necessarily the most representative genus but often the largest or best known or earliest described

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("type genus" is a kind of...):

genus ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

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