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gêneros

English translation: genera

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Portuguese term or phrase:gêneros
English translation:genera
Entered by: rhandler

13:36 Dec 4, 2007
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Science - Botany / plantas aquáticas
Portuguese term or phrase: gêneros
Muniz & Shepherd (1987) sugerem 500 espécies para o Brasil e Luceño et al. (1997), apontam a ocorrência de 600 a 700 espécies distribuídas em 40 a 44 gêneros. Apesar de sua grande representatividade no país, as Ciperáceas têm sido pouco estudadas.
Valeria_ferr (X)
Local time: 22:37
genera
Explanation:
Esta é a forma plural de "genus". Veja estes exemplos:

Glossary
Weber believes in making individual species, genera, and families as distinct from one another as possible, and you will, therefore, find some new species, ...
www.swcoloradowildflowers.com/glossary.htm

Coleoptera : What is species, genus, tribe, family
Classification level above the species group. It consists of similar species. Similar genera (plural form of genus) are grouped into a family tribe: ...
www.coleoptera.org/p1858.htm

KEYS TO COMMON GENERA AND SPECIES
KEY TO COMMON GENERA AND SPECIES. OF HAWAIIAN CHLOROPHYTA. The 16 genera listed in this key represent about 50% of the green algal genera in the Hawaiian ...
www.botany.hawaii.edu/reefalgae/greenskey.htm

Ingenta
Connect Comparing diatom species, genera and size in ...Comparing diatom species, genera and size in biomonitoring: a case study from streams in the Laurentians (Québec, Canada). Authors: Wunsam, Sybille1; ...
www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/fwb/2002/00000047/000000...
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rhandler
Local time: 21:37
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5 +5genera
rhandler
4genuses
R. Alex Jenkins
4 -1classes
Marlene Curtis


  

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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +5
genera


Explanation:
Esta é a forma plural de "genus". Veja estes exemplos:

Glossary
Weber believes in making individual species, genera, and families as distinct from one another as possible, and you will, therefore, find some new species, ...
www.swcoloradowildflowers.com/glossary.htm

Coleoptera : What is species, genus, tribe, family
Classification level above the species group. It consists of similar species. Similar genera (plural form of genus) are grouped into a family tribe: ...
www.coleoptera.org/p1858.htm

KEYS TO COMMON GENERA AND SPECIES
KEY TO COMMON GENERA AND SPECIES. OF HAWAIIAN CHLOROPHYTA. The 16 genera listed in this key represent about 50% of the green algal genera in the Hawaiian ...
www.botany.hawaii.edu/reefalgae/greenskey.htm

Ingenta
Connect Comparing diatom species, genera and size in ...Comparing diatom species, genera and size in biomonitoring: a case study from streams in the Laurentians (Québec, Canada). Authors: Wunsam, Sybille1; ...
www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/fwb/2002/00000047/000000...


rhandler
Local time: 21:37
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 12
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Humberto Ribas
48 mins
  -> Obrigado, Humberto!
agree  lexical
1 hr
  -> Obrigado, lexical!
agree  Fernando Domeniconi
1 hr
  -> Obrigado, Fernando!
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos: Nothing else will do.
5 hrs
  -> Thank you very much, Muriel!
agree  Paul Dixon: Yes, indeed. One genus, two genera.
21 hrs
  -> Thank you, Paul!
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38 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
classes


Explanation:
"500 Gy by 3' rays from a Cs source (600 Gy per hour). Pollen germination was up to 70% after ... and shape and divided into classes: class 1: very small ..."
www.springerlink.com/index/H1855363MQ675H3P.pdf -


Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 20:37
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 15

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Muriel Vasconcellos: Class is way above the level of genus in taxonomy. It goes: kingdom, phylum, **class**, order, family, **genus**, species
5 hrs
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
genuses


Explanation:
As in the plural of 'genus'

Best of luck :)

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Note added at 8 hrs (2007-12-04 22:02:41 GMT)
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Have a look at this: -

Merriam Webster dictionary:

Inflected Form: plural gen·era \'je-nə-rə\ ALSO GE·NUS·ES


Oxford dictionary:

genus
/'dʒinəs/
noun
(pl. GENUSES, -era) genere m.



Either 'Genuses' or 'Genera' will do !


R. Alex Jenkins
Brazil
Local time: 21:37
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 52
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