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).
A term used to characterize a person or thing. epithet(Noun) A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person. epithet(Noun) An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase. epithet(Noun) A word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species. This applies only to formal names of plants, fungi and bacteria. In formal names of animals the corresponding term is the specific name.