genus

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈdʒiːnəs/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Borrowed from Latin genus (“birth, origin, a race, sort, kind”) from the root gen- in Latin gignō (“to beget, produce”). Doublet of gender, genre, and kin.

Frases

Bathycongrus gattulatus is a species of genus Bathycongrus, family Congridae.

Bathycongrus gattulatus é uma espécie de gênero Bathycongrus, Family Parflle.