genus

About 7.22 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.

   All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.

2. noun A taxon at this rank.

   In most cases, at subsequent mentions of the binomial name you can abbreviate the genus with no danger of confusing the reader.

3. noun A group with common attributes.
4. noun A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
5. noun Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
6. noun A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.

Similar words

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Often followed by

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Word family

genera genuses