Genus vs. Primrose — What's the Difference?

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 numerous plants of the genus Primula, having large basal leaves and clusters of variously colored flowers with a five-lobed bell-shaped or salverform corolla. Also called primula.

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

A flowering plant of the genus Primula.

(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.

Specifically, the species Primula acaulis (syn. Primula vulgaris), also called common primrose.

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

A plant of the family Primulaceae.

A class, group, or kind with common attributes.

A plant of the genus Oenothera, better known as an evening primrose.

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

A flower of a primrose plant.

A taxon at this rank.

A light yellow colour.

A group with common attributes.

Of a light yellow colour.

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

(intransitive) To pick primroses.

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

An early flowering plant of the genus Primula (Primula vulgaris) closely allied to the cowslip. There are several varieties, as the white-, the red-, the yellow-flowered, etc. Formerly called also primerole, primerolles.

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

Of or pertaining to the primrose; of the color of a primrose; - hence, flowery; gay.

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.

Any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads

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