The genus that includes modern horses and related species, used in scientific classification.
Directly from Latin 'equus,' meaning horse. This is the scientific genus name established by Carl Linnaeus in the 18th century for the horse family.
When biologists give something a scientific name like 'Equus caballus' (domestic horse) or 'Equus zebra' (zebra), they're using a 2,000-year-old Latin word that Julius Caesar himself would have recognized!
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