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  1. A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
  2. A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
  3. A group with common attributes.
  4. A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
  5. Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
  6. A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.

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Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ˈdʒiːnəs/
Etimologie (Engels)

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os Latin genusbor. English genus Borrowed from Latin genus (“birth, origin, a race, sort, kind”) from the root gen- in Latin gignō (“to beget, produce”). Doublet of gender and genre, further related to kin.

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