Meaning of genus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. kind
2. A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
3. A group of organisms ranking above a species and below a family. See Table at taxonomy.
4. genre
5. A taxon at this rank.
6. A group of closely related species.
7. A group with common attributes.
8. género, categoría perteneciente a una clasificación biológica.
9. gender, sex
10. A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
11. Biology A taxonomic category ranking below a family and above a species and designating a group of species that are presumed to be closely related and usually exhibit similar characteristics. In a scientific name, the genus name is capitalized and italicized, for example,Ovis for sheep and related animals.
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12. gender
13. Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
14. Logic A class of objects divided into subordinate species having certain common attributes.
    Logic
15. A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.
16. A class, group, or kind with common attributes.
17. (Biology) biology any of the taxonomic groups into which a family is divided and which contains one or more species. For example, Vulpes (foxes) is a genus of the dog family (Canidae)
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18. (Logic) logic a class of objects or individuals that can be divided into two or more groups or species
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19. a class, group, etc, with common characteristics
20. (Mathematics) maths a number characterizing a closed surface in topology equal to the number of handles added to a sphere to form the surface. A sphere has genus 0, a torus, genus 1, etc
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Equivalents

Examples

“All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.”

“Other species of the genus Bos are often called cattle or wild cattle.”

“There are only two genera and species of seadragons.”

“Müller […] criticized the division of the "Jubuleae" into two families and he cited Jubula as an annectant genus.”

“Other maloid genera with hard nutlets are Cotoneaster, Hesperomeles, Osteomeles, and Pyracantba, but each of these is quite different from Mespilus and Crataegus.”

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

“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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