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plural genera or (both nonstandard) genuses or genusses
(biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species. quotations
Müller […] criticized the division of the "Jubuleae" into two families and he cited Jubula as an annectant genus.
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, page 6
A taxon at this rank. examples
A group with common attributes. quotations examples
Recollection is one of a whole genus of effects which are more or less peculiar to the phenomena that we naturally call "mental."
1945, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, page 655
(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. examples
(music) A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord. examples