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Genus

//ˈdʒiːnəs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.

    "All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia."

  2. 2
    a general kind of something wordnet
  3. 3
    A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.; A taxon at this rank.

    "In most cases, at subsequent mentions of the binomial name you can abbreviate the genus with no danger of confusing the reader."

  4. 4
    (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species wordnet
  5. 5
    A group with common attributes.

    "Recollection is one of a whole genus of effects which are more or less peculiar to the phenomena that we naturally call "mental.""

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  1. 6
    A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
  2. 7
    Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
  3. 8
    A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os Latin genusbor. English genus Borrowed from Latin genus (“birth, origin, a race, sort, kind”) from the root gen- in Latin gignō (“to beget, produce”). Doublet of gender and genre, further related to kin.

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