Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of genus
The creators of the griffin — half eagle, half lion — were early paleontologists who didn’t quite have their genuses straight and put the fossilized bones in the wrong place.
2007 June 4, Edward Rothstein, “In or Out of Eden, One Man’s Unicorn May Be Another’s Apatosaurus”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2022
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APA
genuses. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/genuses
MLA
“genuses.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/genuses. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “genuses,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/genuses.
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