What is the difference between phylum and genus?
phylum | genus |
(biology, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank
(linguistics) A large division of possibly related languages, or a major language family which is not subordinate to another.
(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.
Genus is a synonym of phylum.
In biology taxonomy terms the difference between phylum and genus
is that phylum is a rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank while genus is a rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank.phylum
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Mammals belong to the phylum Chordata.
Synonyms
* (group of languages) superstockDerived terms
* subphylum * superphylum English nouns with irregular plurals ----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 .