genus

Meaning

  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.

Synonyms

class
A2
kind
A1
sort
A1
species
B2
type
A2
gender
C1
family
A1
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genre
C2
race
A2
sex
A2
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form
B1
rank
C1
tribe
B2
caste
C2
ilk
39k
order
A1
kin
C1
breed
C1
nationality
C2
people
A1
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range
B1
realm
C1
section
B1
seed
C1
series
B1
set
A1
stamp
C1
stock
B2
strain
C1
stripe
20k
style
B1
subject
B1
subsidiary
30k
suppression
25k
variety
C1
way
A1
yield
C1
blood
A1
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family line

brood
C2
category
C1
clan
B2
conquest
C2
deficiency
21k
description
B2
division
B2
folk
B2
gene
B2
genera
gens
Translations

genre
Gattung
genere
género
gênero

γένος

geslacht
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gènere
género
genus
soort
Genus
genus

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Frequency

41k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈdʒiːnəs/
Etymology

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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