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genus

noun
/ˈdʒiːnəs/UK/ˈd͡ʒiːnəs/US

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from gignō — “to beget, produce”
  2. borrowed from genus

Definitions

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

    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.
    • There are only two genera and species of seadragons.

  2. 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."

  3. A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a…

    A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.

    2. A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.

The neighborhood

Derived

bigenus, cloud genus, demigenus, Euler-Fokker genus, Euler genus, form genus, genarian, genotype, genus alternas, genus name, ichnogenus, intergenus, intragenus, multigenus, nothogenus, oogenus, plurigenus, pseudogenus, summum genus, type genus

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA