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genus meaning in Sanskrit

पर pára

UK/ˈdʒiːnəs//ˈd͡ʒiːnəs/

genus in Sanskrit: पर (pára), जनुस् (janús), गोत्र (gotrá). In English, genus means a category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.

Sanskrit words for genus

genus
पर pára
genus , class , kind
जनुस् janús
a genus, class, species W
गोत्र gotrá

English meaning of genus

  1. noun A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
  2. noun A taxon at this rank.
  3. noun A group with common attributes.
  4. noun A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.

Full definition of genus

genus in a sentence

  • All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.
  • Other species of the genus Bos are often called cattle or wild cattle.
  • There are only two genera and species of seadragons.

Synonyms of genus

genus in other languages

Questions about genus in Sanskrit

What is the meaning of genus in Sanskrit?
Genus in Sanskrit is पर (pára), जनुस् (janús), गोत्र (gotrá).
genus इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
Genus: पर (pára), जनुस् (janús), गोत्र (gotrá).
What does genus mean in English?
Genus means a category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.

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Sanskrit words from Wiktionary's Sanskrit entries whose English meaning is “genus”: गोत्र, जनुस्, पर. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: genus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sanskrit words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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