Genus vs Manzanita - What's the difference?
genus | manzanita |
(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 evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Arctostaphylos , especially , having smooth red or orange bark and stiff, twisting branches.
* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter VIII
*:The horse groaned and started his running walk down the trail; Uncle Charley pursued him, breaking a twig off a manzanita bush and handing it up to Monica, who flailed the sorry brute across the shoulders and rump.
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As nouns the difference between genus and manzanita
is that genus is while manzanita is any evergreen shrub or tree of the genus arctostaphylos , especially , having smooth red or orange bark and stiff, twisting branches.genus
English
Noun
(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 .
