definition of the word genus

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< Latin genus (“‘birth, origin, a race, sort, kind’”) < root gen in Latin gignere, Old Latin gegnere (“‘to beget, produce’”)

Singular
genus

Plural
genera

genus (plural genera)

(biology, taxonomy) a rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank

All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.
A group with common attributes
(topology) A number measuring some aspect of the complexity of any of various manifolds or graphs
(semantics) Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.

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