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genus
/ˈdʒiːnəs/
A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family and above species; A group with common attributes
- plural
- genera
Meanings
- 1
A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species
- 2
A group with common attributes
- 3
A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.; A taxon at this rankrare
- 4
A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graphrare
- 5
Within a definition, a broader category of the defined conceptrare
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A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachordrare