género

Definitions of género
  1. noun
    commodities offered for sale
    synonyms: buhonería, efecto, géneros, mercadería, mercancías
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    c/, carga, cargamento, cargazón, cargo, carguío, consignación, embarque, envío, flete, partida, remesa, transporte
    goods carried by a large vehicle
    alijo, chivo, contrabando, matute
    goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law
    estirpe, inventario, linaje
    the merchandise that a shop has on hand
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    artículo, mercancía
    articles of commerce
  2. noun
    articles of commerce
    synonyms: artículo, mercancía
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    artículos de consumo, bienes de consumo
    goods (as food or clothing) intended for direct use or consumption
    exportación
    commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country
    buhonería, efecto, géneros, mercadería, mercancías
    commodities offered for sale
    c/, carga, cargamento, cargazón, cargo, carguío, consignación, embarque, envío, flete, partida, remesa, transporte
    goods carried by a large vehicle
    indumentaria
    a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
    alijo, chivo, contrabando, matute
    goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law
    bienes duraderos
    consumer goods that are not destroyed by use
    estirpe, inventario, linaje
    the merchandise that a shop has on hand
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    artefacto
    a man-made object taken as a whole
  3. noun
    a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
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    arte abstracto
    an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation
    paisajismo
    a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery
    modernismo
    genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
    posmodernismo
    genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism
    primitivismo
    a genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children
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    arte
    the products of human creativity; works of art collectively
  4. noun
    the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
    synonyms: sexo, sexualidad
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    masculinidad
    the properties characteristic of the male sex
    bisexualidad
    showing characteristics of both sexes
    feminidad
    the properties characteristic of the female sex
    virilidad
    the masculine property of being capable of copulation and procreation
  5. noun
    a kind of literary or artistic work
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    clase, tipo
    a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
  6. noun
    a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
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    femenino
    a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
    masculino
    a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male
    neutro
    a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
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    categoría gramatical, categoría sintáctica
    (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
  7. noun
    a style of expressing yourself in writing
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    prosa
    ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
    poesía
    literature in metrical form
    no ficción
    prose writing that is not fictional
    comedia
    light and humorous drama with a happy ending
    tragedia
    drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity
    versificación
    the form or metrical composition of a poem
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    estilo
    a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
  8. noun
    (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species
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    bacterias
    a genus of bacteria
    protoctistas
    any genus of Protoctista
    peces
    any of various genus of fish
    cordados
    any genus in the phylum Chordata
    aves
    a genus of birds
    anfibios
    any genus of amphibians
    reptiles
    a genus of reptiles
    artrópodos
    a genus of arthropods
    mamíferos
    a genus of mammals
    esponjas
    a genus of Porifera
    celenterados, celentéreos
    a genus of coelenterates
    lombrices
    a genus of worms
    moluscos
    a genus of mollusks
    equinodermos
    a genus of echinoderms
    musgos
    a genus of mosses
    gimnospermas
    a genus of gymnosperms
    monocotiledóneas
    genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed
    dicotiledóneas
    genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
    hongos
    includes lichen genera
    plantas
    a genus of plants
    helechos
    genera of ferns and fern allies
    pastor
    only the rose-colored starlings; in some classifications considered a separate genus
    cícero
    magpies
    sagitario
    type genus of the Sagittariidae
    anofeles
    malaria mosquitoes; distinguished by the adult's head-downward stance and absence of breathing tubes in the larvae
    filoxera
    type genus of the Phylloxeridae: plant lice
    mofeta
    in some classifications: type genus of the subfamily Mephitinae
    poto
    evergreen climbers with adhesive adventitious roots; southeastern Asia and Brazil
    rafia
    feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes
    legaña
    rhubarb
    encina
    a large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies)
    amanita
    genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions
    lactario
    large genus of agarics that have white spore and contain a white or milky juice when cut or broken; includes both edible and poisonous species
    volvaria
    agarics having pink spores and a distinct volva
    falo
    genus of fungi having the cap or pileus hanging free around the stem
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    grupo taxonómico
    animal or plant group having natural relations
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