Genus vs Vestlet - What's the difference?
genus | vestlet |
(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.
A small vest.
(zoology) Any of several species of actinian of the genus , with a long, smooth, tapering body and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between genus and vestlet
is that genus is while vestlet is a small vest.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 .