genus
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Is genus a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.Examples: "All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia."; "Other species of the genus Bos are often called cattle or wild cattle."; "There are only two genera and species of seadragons."
2. (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.Examples: "In most cases, at subsequent mentions of the binomial name you can abbreviate the genus with no danger of confusing the reader."Synonyms: genus name#Noun
3. (topology, graph theory, algebraic geometry) A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
4. (semantics) Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
5. (music) A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.
Definition source: Wiktionary