The Chicago Manual of Style takes a more complex approach to capitalizing hyphenated words. It agrees with Gregg that adverbs should be capitalized. Yet it recommends Run-in and Take-off because in and off are short and unstressed. It suggests Hand-me-downs for the same reason.
Meaning: (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species. Classified under: Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects. Hypernyms (genus is a kind of...): taxon; taxonomic category; taxonomic group (animal or plant group having natural relations).Meronyms (members of genus): subgenus ((biology) taxonomic group between a genus and a species). species ((biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed).ype genus ((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).
Taxon. Definition. noun, plural: taxa. (taxonomy). (1) Any group or rank in a biological classification into which related organisms are classified. (2) A taxonomic unit in the biological system of classification of organisms, for example: a phylum, order, family, genus, or species. Supplement.