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Genu [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The knee.

2. The kneelike bend, in the anterior part of the callosum of the brain.

Genua [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Genuflect [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To bend the knee, as in worship.

Genuflected [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Genuflecting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Genuflection [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship.

Genuflection [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship.

Genuine [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Native; belonging to the original stock; hence, real; natural; true; pure; not spurious, false or adulterated. The Gaels are supposed to be genuine descendants of the Celts. Vices and crimes are the genuine effects of depravity, as virtue and piety are the genuine fruits of holiness. It is supposed we have the genuine text of Homer.

Genuine [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials.

Genuinely [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Without adulteration or foreign admixture; naturally.

Genuineness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The state of being native, or of the true original; hence, freedom from adulteration or foreign admixture; freedom from any thing false or counterfeit; purity; reality; as the genuineness of Livy's history; the genuineness of faith or repentance.

Genus [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. plural genuses or genera. [Latin genus See Gender .]

2. In logic, that which has several species under it; a class of a greater extent than species; a universal which is predicable of several things of different species.

3. In natural history, an assemblage of species possessing certain characters in common, by which they are distinguished from all others. It is subordinate to class and order, and some arrangements, to tribe and family. A single species, possessing certain peculiar characters, which belong to no other species, may also constitute a genus; as the camelopard, and the flamingo.

4. In botany, a genus is a subdivision containing plants of the same class and order, which agree in their parts of fructification.

Genus [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.

2. An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus; if its definition can not be made clear, it is more or less an artificial genus.