TYPE GENUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does type genus mean? 

• TYPE GENUS (noun)
  The noun TYPE GENUS has 1 sense:

1. (biology) genus from which the name of a family or subfamily is formed; it is not necessarily the most representative genus but often the largest or best known or earliest described

  Familiarity information: TYPE GENUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYPE GENUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(biology) genus from which the name of a family or subfamily is formed; it is not necessarily the most representative genus but often the largest or best known or earliest described

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("type genus" is a kind of...):

genus ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

 Context examples 

A taxonomic family of filamentous or rod shaped bacterium in the phylum Actinobacteria with type genus actinomyces.

(Actinomycetaceae, NCI Thesaurus)