GENUS
genus
(noun) a general kind of something; “ignore the genus communism”
genus
(noun) (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
genus (plural genera or genuses or genusses)
(taxonomy) a rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank
A group with common attributes.
(topology, graph theory, algebraic geometry) A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
(semantics) Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
Synonyms
• See also class
Hyponyms
• (topology, graph theory): Euler genus
Anagrams
• Negus, negus
Source: Wiktionary
Ge"nus, n.; pl. Genera. Etym: [L., birth, race, kind, sort; akin to
Gr. Gender, and cf. Benign.]
1. (Logic)
Definition: A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a
class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly
divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of
terms.
2. (Biol.)
Definition: An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of
structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists,
they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not
necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often
be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is
exact, it is natural genus; if its definition can not be made clear,
it is more or less an artificial genus.
Note: Thus in the animal kingdom the lion, leopard, tiger, cat, and
panther are species of the Cat kind or genus, while in the vegetable
kingdom all the species of oak form a single genus. Some genera are
represented by a multitude of species, as Solanum (Nightshade) and
Carex (Sedge), others by few, and some by only one known species.
Subaltern genus (Logic), a genus which may be a species of a higher
genus, as the genus denoted by quadruped, which is also a species of
mammal.
– Summum genus Etym: [L.] (Logic), the highest genus; a genus which
can not be classed as a species, as being .
GENU
Ge"nu, n.; pl. Genua. Etym: [L., the knee.] (Anat.)
(a) The knee.
(b) The kneelike bend, in the anterior part of the callosum of the
brain.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition