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pseudogenus

noun

Etymology

From pseudo- + genus.

  1. derived from gignō — “to beget, produce”
  2. borrowed from genus
  3. prefixed as pseudogenus — “pseudo + genus”

Definitions

  1. A spurious genus based on apparent similarities in unrelated organisms.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pseudogenus. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA