(n.) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
(n.) An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus; if its definition can not be made clear, it is more or less an artificial genus.
Example Sentences:
(1) The genome characterization of the typing strains for all 13 species of the genus Staphylococcus, included into the Approval List of the Names of Bacterial (1980), is presented.
(2) The genus Streptomyces was dominant in the two studied localities.
(3) The compounds favored the development of bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas and inhibited the growth of all other gram-negative bacteria.
(4) Organisms of the genus Bacteroides represent the major group of obligate anaerobes involved in human infections.
(5) The 212 strains of this proposed subserovar examined to date display biochemical and serological properties typical of the species, are sensitive to the genus-specific bacteriophage, and cause keratoconjunctivitis in the Sereny test.
(6) The new species has been placed in a new genus and the name Tricornia muhezae proposed.
(7) Although differing somewhat in their responses to various biochemical and biophysical tests, all strains were assigned to the genus Flavobacterium.
(8) Ten TBT-resistant isolates from estuarine sediments and 19 from freshwater sediments were identified to the genus level.
(9) A new genus of actinomycetes, Excellospora Agre a. Guzeva gen. nov., is suggested on the basis of this study.
(10) A new genus of spirochaetes, Hollandina, is also described.
(11) The first group consisted of all strains belonging to L. interrogans and serovar andamana of L. biflexa; the second group consisted of the remaining 5 serovars of L. biflexa; the third group consisted of the genus Leptonema; and the fourth group consisted of only L. parva.
(12) The reservosomes of Trypanosoma spp., sub-genus Schizotrypanum, could be differentiated from the multivesicular bodies of other trypanosomatids, since they lack true vesicles.
(13) Statistical analysis of 251 phylogenetically informative nucleotide positions rejects the "volvocine lineage" hypothesis, which postulates a monophyletic evolutionary progression from unicellular organisms (such as Chlamydomonas), through colonial organisms (e.g., Gonium, Pandorina, Eudorina, and Pleodorina) demonstrating increasing size, cell number, and tendency toward cellular differentiation, to multicellular organisms having fully differentiated somatic and reproductive cells (in the genus Volvox).
(14) In all cases, the determinants of the killer trait are carried by obligate bacterial endosymbionts belonging to the genus Caedibacter.
(15) Lastly, the CVA indicated major differences across the genus to be located in the teeth and jaws, suggesting diet might be an important distinguishing feature in Colobus.
(16) Another pigment 7 was specifically present in the skin of genus Rhacophorus and was deduced to be a pteridine derivative composed of five molecules of pterin-6-carboxylic acid [1].
(17) Bacteria of the genus Thiobacillus can obtain energy from the chemolithotrophic oxidation of inorganic sulphur and its compounds (sulphide, thiosulphate and polythionates) and use this energy to support autotrophic growth on carbon dioxide.
(18) A platelet-aggregating activity was found in many snake venoms, predominantly those of the genus Bothrops, that is apparent only in the presence of the platelet-aggregating von Willebrand factor of plasma.
(19) Sporobolomyces yuccicola is the sixth species of the intermedius group, a group of atypical species of the genus Sporobolomyces equipped with Q-9.
(20) This reduction was confined to strict anaerobes, mainly the genus Eubacterium and Bifidobacterium.
Phoebe
Definition:
(n.) The pewee, or pewit.
Example Sentences:
(1) I hadn't put it on and my wife Phoebe had spent the night away with friends.
(2) • roughguides.com Phoebe Smith, editor, Wanderlust travel magazine This year it's time to check out the Baltics – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
(3) Style blogger Susie Lau, AKA Susie Bubble , cites Phoebe Philo's work at Céline, which has turned even the uglier end of sportswear into luxury.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Phoebe Greenwood returns to Gaza to meet the Palestinian journalists who covered the 2014 war and are now reporting on – and living through – its aftermath Citing the reliance of Gaza’s 1.8 million inhabitants on coastal aquifers as their main source of freshwater, it adds that 95% of this water is not safe to drink.
(5) Phoebe Ramsay, a volunteer helping co-ordinate the food and basic needs of the thousands stranded at the border, said: “The waiting is having a deleterious effect on mental health.
(6) In the third in a series of leader interviews before the general election, the Green party leader talks to Phoebe Greenwood about how the threat of climate change and the state of the British economy are interlinked problems, and clears up a few questions about the party’s policies.
(7) While the Odyssey room was thought "cool", it was also a little "boysy" for Phoebe, who loved the stuffed toys and dolls on offer the best.
(8) For extra kudos, hold court with the argument that the avant-bland looks on the catwalk are the natural extension of how Phoebe Philo, current queen of catwalk cool, has made the tradition of giving artistic and retro references to a collection look old hat by her habit of shrugging nonchalantly and insisting the clothes she designs are just, y'know, stuff she wants to wear.
(9) His daughter Phoebe, ,(aged two and three quarters), who was eating her tea, put down her knife and fork and began to chant: "Save our beavers."
(10) Review by Phoebe McFadden, 8½ With a boggle-eyed toy chihuahua wedged firmly under her arm, Phoebe McFadden and her mother Clodagh, took the Guardian on a tour of the new Toy Kingdom.
(11) Basically, the games industry has been studying how everyone watches television these days, and, apparently, that involves sort of semi-viewing stuff like X Factor and Made in Chelsea while tweeting friends or, I don't know, looking up Phoebe-Lettice Thompson on the web.
(12) Anders Sølvsten Thomsen, Phoebe Arnold and Kimi O'Neill also join from Pop as fashion editors; along with Joseph Mercier and Michelle Simkins as junior editors.
(13) • doolin-house.ru Phoebe Taplin Irish Pub, Namche Bazar, Nepal Probably the highest Irish pub in the world, definitely the planet’s least accessible Irish pub, and almost certainly the only Irish pub with yak on the menu; reaching the Irish Pub in the Sherpa town of Namche Bazaar is quite the adventure.
(14) Phoebe, by email Actually, Phoebe, it turns out this is not how Farage plans to woo the working class at all.
(15) • Phoebe Smith is the author of Extreme Sleeps: Adventures of a Wild Camper (Summersdale, £8.99).
(16) -- Watch the Guardian's full interview with Hillary Clinton: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hillary Clinton sat down with Phoebe Greenwood and answered questions from some journalists (and celebrities) .
(17) My daughter Phoebe will be absolutely devastated like we all are.” Brewster had put down a deposit on a house with Winslow the day before the attack.
(18) "What have I achieved in my time in government?," the legacy-obsessed Blair asks of a hyper-critical Cherie, played by Phoebe Nicholls.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With most major parties committed to degrees of austerity, Phoebe Greenwood asks whether anyone has learned the lesson of the past five years The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats are all committed to deficit reduction after the election, but Krugman says the UK seems “stuck on obsessions that have been mainly laughed out of the discourse elsewhere”.
(20) So ardent was the clamour for hugs and double kisses around Phoebe Philo after her Céline show at Paris fashion week on Sunday lunchtime that, by the time the designer came to speak to reporters, she had pulled off the camel sweater worn to take her catwalk bow.