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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species. · A taxon at this rank. · A group with common attributes. · A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os Proto-Italic *genos Latin genusbor. English genus Borrowed from Latin genus (“birth, origin, a race, sort, kind”) from the root gen- in Latin gignō (“to beget, produce”). Doublet of gender and genre, further related to kin.
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