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.

Noun

(wikipedia fashion)

(countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}

(uncountable) Popular trends.

* John Locke

the innocent diversions in fashion

* H. Spencer

As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.

(countable) A style or manner in which something is done.

* 1918 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V

When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion .}}

The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.

the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.

* Bible, Luke ix. 29

The fashion of his countenance was altered.

* Shakespeare

I do not like the fashion of your garments.

(dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.

men of fashion