The phrase "a genus term" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to biology, taxonomy, or classification, where you refer to a term that denotes a genus in the scientific naming of organisms.
Example: "In biological classification, 'Canis' is a genus term that includes species such as dogs and wolves."
Alternatives: "a generic term" or "a taxonomic term".
Unique 16S rDNA sequences attributed to NB were ascribed to a new genus termed Nanobacterium, which was initially assigned to the α-2 subclass of Proteobacteria [1], [2].
This is a standard problem with trying to understand a genus in terms of a particularly salient species thereof.
Since Aristotle calls the axioms, 'those from which (demonstration arises),' some have suggested that the axioms alone form the premises for a science and that a proof in any science arises by placing genus terms and their definitions in the axioms and then substituting terms like 'triangle' for their definitions when they arise in proofs.
Here reference was made to genus terms such as 'animal'animal
He called the first type, the case of genus terms, the analogy of inequality, and dismissed it as unimportant, indeed, not properly analogy at all.
Medieval logicians felt obliged to fit this claim into the framework of equivocation and analogy, even if the consensus was that in the end the use of genus terms was univocal.
By contrast, Locke goes on to argue, we have no ideas of real essences and so our species or genus terms refer to the nominal essences, not to the real essences (II.xxxi.6; citations to Locke's Essay are given as book, chapter, section; so Book II, chapter xxxi, section 6 is given as "II.xxxi.6").
More recently, a number of genome sequences for more basal, and nonpathogenic, members of the Listeria genus have become available, facilitating a wider perspective on the evolution of pathogenicity and genome level evolutionary dynamics within the entire genus (termed Listeria sensu lato).
It was traditionally supposed that a species could be uniquely specified or defined in terms of a genus and a differentia.
Suppositio simplex is the acceptance of a term for the universal 'thing' it signifies, as in homo est species ('Man is a species', animal est genus ('Animal is a genus'), in which the substantive terms homo and animal stand for the universal man and animal, and not any one of their particulars.
