Asparagus vs. Genus — What's the Difference?

Asparagus, or garden asparagus, folk name sparrow grass, scientific name Asparagus officinalis, is a perennial flowering plant species in the genus Asparagus. Its young shoots are used as a spring vegetable.

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.

The tender young shoots of the plant Asparagus officinalis, eaten as a vegetable.

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

Any of various perennial plants of the genus Asparagus of Eurasia and Africa, having leaflike stems, scalelike leaves, and small flowers.

(Biology) A taxonomic category ranking below a family and above a species and designating a group of species that are presumed to be closely related and usually exhibit similar characteristics. In a scientific name, the genus name is capitalized and italicized, for example, Ovis for sheep and related animals.

Any of various perennial plants of the genus Asparagus having leaflike stems, scalelike leaves, and small flowers.

(Logic) A class of objects divided into subordinate species having certain common attributes.

The young shoots of Asparagus officinalis eaten as a vegetable.

A class, group, or kind with common attributes.

(color) A green colour, like that of an asparagus.

A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.

A genus of perennial plants belonging to the natural order Liliaceæ, and having erect much branched stems, and very slender branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves. Asparagus racemosus is a shrubby climbing plant with fragrant flowers. Specifically: The Asparagus officinalis, a species cultivated in gardens.

A taxon at this rank.

The young and tender shoots of Asparagus officinalis, which form a valuable and well-known article of food.

A group with common attributes.

Plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable

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

Edible young shoots of the asparagus plant

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

(music) A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.

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.

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.

A general kind of something;

(biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species