genus.
A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
Meaning & usage
A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.
Other species of the genus Bos are often called cattle or wild cattle.
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.
A group with common attributes.
A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os Proto-Italic *genos 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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