Campanula vs. Genus

Campanulanoun

(botany) Any plant of the genus Campanula.

Campanula

A large genus of plants bearing bell-shaped flowers, often of great beauty; - also called bellflower.

Campanulanoun

any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers

Campanula

Campanula () is one of several genera of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae commonly known as bellflowers. They take both their common and scientific names from the bell-shaped flowers — campanula is Latin for .

Genusnoun

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

Genusnoun

A group with common attributes.

Genusnoun

A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.

Genusnoun

(semantics) Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.

Genusnoun

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.

Genusnoun

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.

Genusnoun

a general kind of something;

Genusnoun

(biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species

Genusnoun

a principal taxonomic category that ranks above species and below family, and is denoted by a capitalized Latin name, e.g. Leo.

Genusnoun

(in philosophical and general use) a class of things that have common characteristics and that can be divided into subordinate kinds.

Genus

Genus (plural genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family.