Campanula vs. Genus — What's the Difference?

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 "little bell".

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.

Any of various plants of the genus Campanula, which includes the harebell and the bellflower.

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

(botany) Any plant of the genus Campanula.

(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.

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

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

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

A class, group, or kind with common attributes.

A 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.

(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