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 .

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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

(en noun)

Any of genus (taxlink) of flowering plants.

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