Genus vs Unio - What's the difference?
genus | unio |
(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 genus of freshwater mussels.
* 1894 , Sleep of mollusks'' (in ''Popular Science , volume 45, number 1, May 1894, page 99)
As nouns the difference between genus and unio
is that genus is (biology|taxonomy) a rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank while unio is any of the genus of freshwater mussels.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 .
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* generic name * class * division * kingdom * order * phylum * species * (semantics) differentiaExternal links
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* English nouns with irregular plurals ----unio
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(wikipedia unio)Noun
(en noun)- In June, 1850, a living pond mussel was sent to Dr. Gray from Australia which had been kept out of water more than a year, and instances of the survival of unios without moisture for long periods are not rare.
