Genusnoun
(taxonomy) a rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank
‘All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.’; ‘Other species of the genus Bos are often called cattle or wild cattle.’; ‘There are only two genera and species of seadragons.’;
Epithetnoun
A term used to characterize a person or thing.
Genusnoun
A group with common attributes.
Epithetnoun
A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.
Genusnoun
A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
Epithetnoun
One of many formulaic words or phrases used in Iliad and the Odyssey to characterize a person, a group of people, or a thing.
Genusnoun
(semantics) Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
Epithetnoun
An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase.
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.
Epithetnoun
(taxonomy) A word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species. This applies only to formal names of plants, fungi and bacteria. In formal names of animals the corresponding term is the specific name.
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.
Epithetverb
(transitive) To term; to refer to as.
‘He was epitheted "the king of fools".’;
Genusnoun
a general kind of something;
‘ignore the genus communism’;
Epithetnoun
An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.
‘A prince [Henry III.] to whom the epithet "worthless" seems best applicable.’;
Genusnoun
(biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species
Epithetnoun
Term; expression; phrase.
Genusnoun
a principal taxonomic category that ranks above species and below family, and is denoted by a capitalized Latin name, e.g. Leo.
Epithetverb
To describe by an epithet.
‘Never was a town better epitheted.’;
Genusnoun
(in philosophical and general use) a class of things that have common characteristics and that can be divided into subordinate kinds.
Epithetnoun
a defamatory or abusive word or phrase;
‘sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me’;
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.
Epithetnoun
descriptive word or phrase
Epithetnoun
an adjective or phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned
‘old men are often unfairly awarded the epithet ‘dirty’’;
Epithetnoun
an epithet used as a term of abuse
‘people jeered and hurled racial epithets’;
Epithet
An epithet (from Greek: ἐπίθετον, epitheton, neuter of ἐπίθετος, epithetos, ) is a byname, or a descriptive term (word or phrase), accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, divinities, objects, and binomial nomenclature.
‘attributed, added’;
