genus

Plural: genera, genii, genuses, genusses

Noun

• A principal taxonomic category ranking above species and below family.
• a general kind of something
  • "ignore the genus communism"
• (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species
• A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
• A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
• A taxon at this rank.
• 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.

Examples

• All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.
• In most cases, at subsequent mentions of the binomial name you can abbreviate the genus with no danger of confusing the reader.
• Other species of the genus Bos are often called cattle or wild cattle.
• Playing GENUS felt like categorizing the entire Words With Friends dictionary into one brilliant word.
• There are only two genera and species of seadragons.

Synonyms

genus name#Noun

Related Words

class, differentia, division, domain, family, gender, general, generate, generation, generic, genocide, genre, infrageneric, kingdom, order, phylum, section, series, species, subgenus, supergenus