Sentence examples for genus and from inspiring English sources

(A giraffe is both a genus and a species).

The fossils were extraordinary enough for scientists to declare the dinosaur a new genus and species.

California poppies are in the poppy family but are a different genus and species: Eschscholzia californica.

Johnson calls Shea "a one-man anti-defamation league for our genus and species".

It is so unusual that it is both a new genus and species.

In Homo sapiens, Homo is the genus and sapiens the species.

The image panel below provides a more detailed illustration of how Amazonian timber varies spatially by genus and value.

Linnaeus, the 18th-century Swedish scientist known for categorizing creatures into genus and species, also developed a taxonomy of disease.

She reported finding in Kenya the 3.5-million-year-old skull and other fossils of another new genus and species, Kenyanthropus platyops.

If the discoverers are correct, the fossils represent a hominid of an entirely new genus and species, which has been named Orrorin tugenensis.

Once there, he fell in love with the richness of the genus and its 850 species and thousands of different forms.