subgenus

1. Subgenus
   (Biol) A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.

1. (n) subgenus
   A subordinate genus; a section or subdivision of a genus higher than a species. Since there is no fixed definition of a genus, there can be none of a subgenus; and thousands of groups in zoology formerly regarded as subgenera, or disregarded entirely, are now named and held to be genera. Though there is theoretically or technically a difference, it is ignored in practice; since a name, whether given as that of a genus or of a subgenus, is a generic name. The case is somewhat different in practice from that of the names of families and subfamilies, whose difference in termination preserves a formal distinction, and from that of the names of all super-generic groups, because none of these enter into the technical binomial designation of a given animal or plant. Thus, the name Lynx may have been given to a subdivision of the genus Felis, and be thus a subgeneric name; but a cat of this kind, as the bay lynx, would be known by the alternative names Felis rufus and Lynx rufus, according to the difference of expert opinion in the case; or, as a compromise, the subgeneric term would be formally introduced in parentheses between the generic and the specific name, as Felis (Lynx) rufus. In botany a subgenus is a section of a genus so strongly marked as to have plausible claims to be itself an independent genus.

1. (n) Subgenus
   sub-jē′nus a primary division of a genus including one or more species with common characters

taxon taxonomic category taxonomic group

Acrobates Andropogon Ankylostomiasis Anthus ass Bibos bison Bubalus Caesalpinia calliopsis Capreoline Capreolus cherry Coreopsis tinctoria Cryptotermes Cygnus Dama Delthyris ducal Elanoides Entomophthora Fomes genus genus Bison genus Caesalpinia genus Cryptotermes genus Proconsul genus Spinus genus Vespula gerfalcon hepatica hobby ibex Iphigenia kangaroo Lagena lynx Mahonia Marginella mink Oreamnos ostrich Padda Petroselinum Poinciana Pomolobus Prosopis Quercus Rusa salvia section Sinapis sorghum species Spinus Sterna Subgeneric subgenus Poinciana subgroup tern titmouse Trinomial Turdus Vespula widgeon zebra Zebrine

aubgenus wubgenus dubgenus xubgenus zubgenus aubgenus sybgenus shbgenus sjbgenus sibgenus suvgenus suggenus suhgenus sungenus subfenus subtenus subhenus subbenus subvenus subgwnus subgsnus subgdnus subgrnus subgebus subgehus subgejus subgemus subgenys subgenhs subgenjs subgenis subgenua subgenuw subgenud subgenux subgenuz subgenua