Genuineness

State or quality of being genuine, or of the true original. -Freedom from adulteration or foreign admixture; freedom from anything false or counterfeit; purity; reality. Ge'nus, n.; pl. GEN'ERA. [Lat., from Gr. genos , from genes thai, to be born.] A race; descent; kind; family; stock; lineage; kindred; extraction; breed. ( Zool .) A distinct group of species, allied by common characters, and subordinate to an order, family, tribe, or sub-tribe. A genus is often an arbitrary group, since, although it is a natural a emblage, nearly every naturalist has his own views with regard to the propriety of uniting or separating particular a emblages of species. The synonymy of genera has thus become more copious as the study of natural history has, progre ed, and presents one of the difficulties which the student of zoology has to contend against. - See SPECIES. ( Bot .) The term genus is applied to a collection of species of plants which resemble one another in general structure and appearance more than they resemble any other species. Thus the various kinds of brambles constitute one genus; the roses, another; the heaths, willows, clovers, oaks, ., form also, in like manner, so many different genera. The characters of a genus are taken exclusively from the organs of reproduction, while those of a species are derived generally from all parts of the plant. Hence a genus may be defined as an a emblage of species which resemble one another in the structure and general characters of their organs of reproduction. It does not nece arily happen that a genus should contain a number of species, for if a single one presents peculiarities of a marked kind, it may of itself constitute a genus. (Logic.) One of the predicables, which is considered as the material part of the species of which it is affirmed. (Mus.) Any scale of music. If a scale proceed by tones, it is called the diatonic genus; if between the tones semitones are introduced, it is called the chromatic genus. When the subdivisions are smaller, as quarter tones, it is called the enharmonic genus. Genzano, ( jain - za'no ,) a town of Italy, in the Pontifical States, 18 m. S E. of Rome, on the Appian Way. An annual festival held here, called the Inf i or at a di Genzano, is attended by numerous visitors from Rome. Pop . abt. 4,700.