Genus vs. Thrift — 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.

The quality of using money and other resources carefully and not wastefully

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

A European plant which forms low-growing tufts of slender leaves with rounded pink flower heads, growing chiefly on sea cliffs and mountains.

(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.

Wise economy in the management of money and other resources; frugality.

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

Vigorous growth of living things, such as plants.

A class, group, or kind with common attributes.

Any of several densely tufted plants of the genus Armeria, especially A. maritima, having white to pink flower heads with a funnel-shaped scarious calyx.

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

A savings and loan association, credit union, or savings bank. Also called thrift institution.

A taxon at this rank.

To shop in thrift stores, especially for clothing

A group with common attributes.

(uncountable) The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money).

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

A savings bank.

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

(countable) Any of various plants of the genus Armeria, particularly Armeria maritima.

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

(obsolete) Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity; profit.

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.

(obsolete) Vigorous growth, as of a plant.

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.

(transitive) To obtain from a thrift shop.

A general kind of something;

A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality.

(biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species

Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity.

Vigorous growth, as of a plant.

One of several species of flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria.

Any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers

Extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily