Genus vs Stonecrop - What's the difference?
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(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 various succulent plants of the Crassulaceae family, native to temperate zones, especially in genus Sedum
* 1954 , , (The Two Towers)
Certain plants of genus Lithospermum , in family Boraginaceae.
As nouns the difference between genus and stonecrop
is that genus is while stonecrop is any of various succulent plants of the crassulaceae family, native to temperate zones, especially in genus sedum .genus
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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 .
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* English nouns with irregular plurals ----stonecrop
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(wikipedia stonecrop)Noun
(en noun)- A trailing plant with flowers like small white stars had bound itself across the bows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed.