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Genus vs Sempervivum - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between genus and sempervivum

is that genus is (biology|taxonomy) a rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank while sempervivum is any of the genus sempervivum of succulent plants, the houseleeks or liveforevers.

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

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    sempervivum

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of the genus Sempervivum of succulent plants, the houseleeks or liveforevers.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 15, author=Anne Raver, title=Hardy Succulents Take on a New Glow, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=My favorite of the moment: a sleeping man in a long cattle trough, planted with thousands of a Sedum album called Red Ice, now turning ruby red in the cold, with sempervivum eyes on a head-size volcanic rock, and two farmer-like feet made of same. }}