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Genus vs Speciose - What's the difference?

genus | speciose |

As a noun genus

is (biology|taxonomy) a rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank.

As an adjective speciose is

(biology) rich in species, such as when a many species are members of a single genus.

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 .
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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.

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    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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    speciose

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (biology) Rich in species, such as when a many species are members of a single genus.
  • * 1991, David M. Raup, Extinction: Bad genes or bad luck? , W. W. Norton and Company, pp 55-56,
    • The most speciose living mammal genus (a small insectivore) has about 160 species.
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