Associations to the word «Genus»

Wiktionary

GENUS, noun. (taxonomy) a rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank
GENUS, noun. A group with common attributes.
GENUS, noun. (topology) A number measuring some aspect of the complexity of any of various manifolds or graphs
GENUS, noun. (semantics) Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
GENUS NAME, noun. (taxonomy) The scientific name of a genus may be called the generic name or generic epithet: it is always capitalized.

Dictionary definition

GENUS, noun. A general kind of something; "ignore the genus communism".
GENUS, noun. (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species.

Wise words

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates