Both Uses of
genus
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Tables of contents of reference material are so structured, mechanical assemblies, computer software, all scientific and technical knowledge is so structured...so much so that in some fields such as biology, the hierarchy of kingdom phylum-class-order-family-genus-species is almost an icon.†
Part 2
- The overall name of these interrelated structures, the genus of which the hierarchy of containment and structure of causation are just species, is system.†
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Definition:
a group of related species in biological classification — or more generally, any category of similar things
In biology, genus ranks above species and below family. It is a descriptive Latin word that is always capitalized.