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Genus vs Eugenia - What's the difference?

genus | eugenia |

As nouns the difference between genus and eugenia

is that genus is while eugenia is (botany) any member of the genus eugenia of myrtaceous plants.

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

    External links

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    Anagrams

    * English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    eugenia

    Translingual

    (rfimage) (wikipedia Eugenia) (wikispecies)

    Proper noun

    • Hypernyms

    * (genus) Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids II - clades; Myrtales - order; Myrtaceae - family; - tribe

    Hyponyms

    * For the numerous species see ("Eugenia" species on Wikimedia) ----