multĭ-gĕnus or multĭ-gĕnĕrus, a, um, adj. [multus-genus],
of many kinds, various (poet. and post-Aug.): multigenis variata figuris, Lucr. 2, 335: multa haec et multigenera terrestrium volucrumque vita, Plin. 11, 1, 1, § 1.