Genus vs Barosaurus - What's the difference?
genus | barosaurus |
(biology, taxonomy) a rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank
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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.
Any of the genus Barosaurus of long-tailed, long-necked, herbivorous dinosaurs.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 25, author=Patricia Cohen, title=Now He’s Only Hunted by Cameras, work=New York Times
, passage=Some of his literary fans could be glimpsed a few weeks ago at PEN’s black-tie gala, paying their respects to Mr. Rushdie as he sipped a drink next to the lumbering barosaurus at the American Museum of Natural History . }}
As a noun genus
is .As a proper noun barosaurus is
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(genera)- 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 .
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* English nouns with irregular plurals ----barosaurus
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