Genus

Examples

• The difficulty in distinguishing variable species is largely due to the varieties mocking, as it were, other species of the same genus. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It was a tree of the fig genus, and from the first it was treated with peculiar veneration. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I have met with striking instances of the rule in the case of varieties intermediate between well-marked varieties in the genus Balanus. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Richard sagaciously saw, as Jussieu observes, that this genus should still be retained among the Malpighiaceae. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• This seemed to be true, so long as a genus was imperfectly known, and its species were founded upon a few specimens, that is to say, were provisional. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Let (A) be a common, widely-diffused, and varying species, belonging to a genus large in its own country. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• You had a real _genus_, to use his expression. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Is every man's life subject to pure accident, is it only the race, the genus, the species, that has a universal reference? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Thus it is, as I believe, that two or more genera are produced by descent with modification, from two or more species of the same genus. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In a large genus it is probable that more than one species would vary. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• You will think more highly of your genus when you have seen its armies and navies, its great cities, and its mighty engineering works. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• If the extreme forms in the genus happen to have been thus destroyed, the genus itself will stand more distinct from other allied genera. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Like many other species of this genus, the ermine has the faculty of ejecting a fluid of a musky odor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• All that we want to show is, that where many species of a genus have been formed, on an average many are still forming; and this certainly holds good. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• No fixed law seems to determine the length of time during which any single species or any single genus endures. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In this respect, therefore, the species of the larger genera resemble varieties, more than do the species of the smaller genera. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In genera having more than the average number of species in any country, the species of these genera have more than the average number of varieties. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Thus, as I believe, species are multiplied and genera are formed. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The archipelago, though not rich in insects, afforded several new genera, each island with its distinct kinds. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• On the lofty mountains of equatorial America a host of peculiar species belonging to European genera occur. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Thus it is, as I believe, that two or more genera are produced by descent with modification, from two or more species of the same genus. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The six descendants from (I) will form two sub-genera or genera. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• There are other relations between the species of large genera and their recorded varieties which deserve notice. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• If the plants inhabiting a country as described in any Flora, be divided into two equal masses, all those in the larger genera (i. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Species belonging to different genera and classes have not changed at the same rate, or in the same degree. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Altogether no less than ten genera are enumerated, which include species that imitate other butterflies. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Fifteen new species of sea-fish were obtained, distributed in twelve genera. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• On the Silla of Caraccas the illustrious Humboldt long ago found species belonging to genera characteristic of the Cordillera. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• But, by steps hereafter to be explained, the larger genera also tend to break up into smaller genera. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• We will suppose the letters A to L to represent allied genera existing during the Silurian epoch, and descended from some still earlier form. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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