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genius, genus, genre
genius (JEEN yuhs) (noun)
Talent; a great mental capacity and inventive ability; especially, great and original creative ability in some art, science, etc.: Lenora showed a great genius for engineering.
genus (JEE nuhs) (noun)
A class, kind, sort: A Swedish botanist named Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778) defined the genus of plants, helping to form the modern basis of modern classifications.
genre (ZHAHN ruh) (noun)
A kind, or type, as of works of literature, art, etc.: The famous author specializes in the genre of short stories.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

—Joseph Joubert

A genius is a man who shoots at something no one else can see and hits it.

—Evan Esar

The author, who was considered a genius, wrote in a particular genre and her genius was making sense of the genus and species of plants in the aquatic world.

This entry is located in the following unit: Confusing Words Clarified: Group G; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. + (page 2)
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A unit related to: “genus”
genus, genesis-, -gen, -gene, -genesis, -genetic, -genic, -geny, -genous
(Latin: birth, beget; descent, origin, creation, inception, beginning, race, sort; kind, class)
thymo-3, thym-, thymi- (plant) +
(Greek > Latin: a genus of plants, the thyme)
Word Entries containing the term: “genus”
et hoc genus omne
And everything of the kind; and all that sort.

This phrase is used to indicate others of the same class of persons or things; such as, "and all that sort of thing" and is considered by one source as "a pretentious substitute for et cetera, etc.".

This entry is located in the following unit: Latin Proverbs, Mottoes, Phrases, and Words: Group E (page 3)
Fortuna non mutat genus. (Latin proverb)
Translation: "Circumstances do not change our origin."
This entry is located in the following unit: Latin Proverbs, Mottoes, Phrases, and Words: Group F (page 4)
Monopolia dicitur, cum unus solus aliquod genus mercature universum emit, pretium ad suum libitum statuens. (a legal statement in Latin)
Translation: "It is said to be a monopoly when one person alone buys up the whole of one kind of commodity, fixing a price at his own pleasure."
This entry is located in the following units: cum (page 1) Latin Proverbs, Mottoes, Phrases, and Words: Group M (page 4) merci- (page 2) mono-, mon- (page 11) uni-, un- (page 2)