genus

Meaning

A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
A group with common attributes.
A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.

Borrowed from Latin genus ("birth, origin, a race, sort, kind") from the root gen- in Latin gignere, Old Latin gegnere ("to beget, produce"). gender, genre, and kin.

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