Genus vs Pulmonaria - What's the difference?
genus | pulmonaria |
(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 of the flowering plants of the genus (taxlink), the lungworts.
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, passage=Right now spring is unfolding on woodland slopes in the south garden with a mélange of scilla, Chionodoxa luciliae and pulmonaria , punctuated by brilliant splashes of daffodils. }}
As nouns the difference between genus and pulmonaria
is that genus is while pulmonaria is any of the flowering plants of the genus (taxlink), the lungworts.genus
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(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 .
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* generic name * class * division * kingdom * order * phylum * species * (semantics) differentiaExternal links
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* English nouns with irregular plurals ----pulmonaria
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