How to Use genus in a Sentence

genus

noun

• Whale sharks, the largest of the genus, can reach up to 33 feet.
  — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2018
• Daikon and red radishes are from the same genus and species.
  — Yejin Choi, Bon Appétit, 11 Aug. 2022
• The name Osmia is the genus of 242 species of solitary bees.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 24 June 2023
• Cherries are a beloved stone fruit of many plants in the Prunus genus.
  — Lauren Panoff, Mph, Rd, Verywell Health, 9 Jan. 2025
• And there wasn’t just one species in this iconic genus.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2023
• The genus is best described as the family the plant is part of.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 20 Aug. 2022
• In Page’s lab, upper-case Cannabis refers to the genus and lower-case refers to the plant.
  — Angela Chen, The Verge, 19 Apr. 2018
• The genus name Prunus is from the Latin, meaning plum or cherry.
  — Earl Nickel, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2018
• There are nearly 50 species of plants in the Monstera genus.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 30 Aug. 2023
• And few are more distinct than those in the genus Leptonetela.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2023
• About that Latin name: the genus name Aegolius is a type of screech owl thought to be a bird of ill omen.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2018
• The health effects are dependent on the genus, species and strain of the microbe.
  — Valerie Agyeman, Good Housekeeping, 22 Nov. 2022
• Devil's claw is the name for the Harpagophytum genus (group) of plants.
  — Verywell Health, 21 Feb. 2023
• Its structure stood out from others in the genus, Fau said.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 17 May 2024
• The fish have the same breeding practice as L. mawe, and other species in their genus.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 June 2025
• There are close to 150 species of sunflowers in the genus Helianthus.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Oct. 2024
• For the record, the dinner-only eatery was named after the genus of a species of six birds of paradise.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2023
• While Alaskapox belongs to the same genus as smallpox, the two appear to share few traits.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2021
• This creature, the first of its genus, is thought to have weighed about a ton and measured about 24 feet in length at one time.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2023
• All names have to have a combination of a genus name, which comes first, and a species name.
  — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 1 July 2019
• All true lilies grow from bulbs and are members of the genus Lilium.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2025
• The garden rhubarb with which those strawberry-rhubarb pies are made is one plant of the genus Rheum.
  — John E. McIntyre, baltimoresun.com, 19 June 2018
• Each envelope had the name of a cactus genus written on the front.
  — Zoë Schlanger, Quartz, 3 July 2019
• That changed with the appearance of a genus, now a single species, that could start fire at will: ours.
  — Stephen Pyne, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
• Each being part of a species, each species part of a genus and family, all life in relation to other life.
  — Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
• But be careful not to deadhead plants in the Borago genus.
  — Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 1 June 2026
• Death cap mushrooms are part of the Amanita genus.
  — Sacbee.com, 1 June 2026
• Ginseng comes from the root of several plant species in the Panax genus.
  — Ann Pietrangelo, Verywell Health, 30 May 2026
• The genus name Kank honors an ancient myth of the indigenous Aonikenk (Tehuelche) people.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
• Tylosaurus was previously thought to be a less diverse genus than other mosasaurs.
  — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 28 May 2026