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Genus vs Gens - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between genus and gens

is that genus is a rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank while gens is a legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related by birth, marriage or adoption, but allowing a greater amount of time between members and their common ancestor than is commonly implied by the term {{term|related|lang=en}}.

As an abbreviation gens is

generations.

genus

English

Noun

(genera)
  • (biology, taxonomy) a rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank
    • 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 .
  • A group with common attributes.
  • *1945 , (Bertrand Russell), A History of Western Philosophy , p. 655:
  • *:Recollection is one of a whole genus of effects which are more or less peculiar to the phenomena that we naturally call "mental."
  • (topology) A number measuring some aspect of the complexity of any of various manifolds or graphs
  • (semantics) Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * summum genus

    Related terms

    * general * generic * generate * generation * gender * genocide * genre * infrageneric

    See also

    * generic name * class * division * kingdom * order * phylum * species * (semantics) differentia

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    gens

    English

    Etymology 1

    Shortened from generations.

    Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)
  • generations
    • See also
    * gen

    Etymology 2

    (wikipedia gens) From (etyl) ; see also gentile, gender, genus, generate.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (historical) A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related by birth, marriage or adoption, but allowing a greater amount of time between members and their common ancestor than is commonly implied by the term related.
  • (anthropology) A tribal subgroup whose members are characterized by having the same descent, usually along the male line.
  • * 1919 , :
    • The taboos, the laws, the rules of genses , tribes, and nations, from the lowest to the highest, are upheld by a vague terror and sacred awe which society impresses on man by threats of ill-luck, fearful evil, and terrible punishments befalling sinners and transgressors of the tabooed, of the holy and the forbidden, charged with a mysterious, highly contagious, and virulently infective life-consuming energy.

    Usage notes

    (historical Roman unit of society) The concept is close to and often translated as clan, but the two are not identical. The alternative tribe is also sometimes used, but the (etyl) tribus has a separate meaning.

    Synonyms

    (historical Roman unit of society) clan, tribe

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