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Sui Generis
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What does Sui Generis mean?
adjective
- In a class of its own; one of a kind.
noun
- Something of its own kind; a thing apart.
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adverb
- (rare) By itself; of its own.
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A few isolated facts had been gathered of its geology, and the anomalous fauna and flora sui generis had been but partially described.
The eminent Italian geologist, Stoppani, goes further than I had ventured to do, and treats the action of man as a new physical clement altogether sui generis.
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Notwithstanding subparagraph (b), each Party shall provide for the protection of plant varieties through patents, an effective scheme of sui generis protection, or both.
We are ignorant whether these mixtures constitute rocks sui generis placed under granite, and consequently of more ancient date; or simply form either intermediate strata on veins, in the interior of the primitive mountains, the tops of which appear at the surface of the globe.) Every thing that tends to enlighten us with respect to the site of the volcanic fire, and the position of rocks subject to its action, is highly interesting to geology.