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Genus vs Desmodium - What's the difference?

genus | desmodium |

As nouns the difference between genus and desmodium

is that genus is while desmodium is any member of the genus of the flowering plant family fabaceae, containing mostly inconspicuous legumes but some with bright or large flowers.

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

    See also

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

    desmodium

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any member of the genus of the flowering plant family Fabaceae, containing mostly inconspicuous legumes but some with bright or large flowers.
  • Hyponyms

    * (members of genus) tick-trefoil, tick clover, hitch hikers, beggar lice