Genus
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈdʒiːnəs/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Genus is a noun meaning (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
Meaning
(biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
More Meanings
- A group with common attributes.
- (semantics) Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
- (music) A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.
- (topology, graph theory, algebraic geometry) A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
Example Sentences
All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.
There are only two genera and species of seadragons.
Other species of the genus Bos are often called cattle or wild cattle.
Müller […] criticized the division of the "Jubuleae" into two families and he cited Jubula as an annectant genus.
Word Forms
- genera
- genuses
- genusses
- genii
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