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What is a genus?

What is a genus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (taxonomy) a rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank
  2. A group with common attributes.
  3. (topology) A number measuring some aspect of the complexity of any of various manifolds or graphs
  4. (semantics) Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
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Specimens of Aeolidiopsis ransoni are found living on colonial zoantharians of the genus Palythoa.
The gooseberries are usually placed in genus Ribes, along with their near cousins, the blackcurrants and redcurrants.
Then came the great reform of Carolus Linnaeus and his system of Latin binomials, identifying each organism by genus and species.
Albanese's research involved examining curves on algebraic surfaces and the genus of an algebraic variety.
The genus Madhuca belongs to the same family as the sapodilla, and some species have edible, although poor, fruits.
The horned baboon spiders are a very unique genus having a distinct horn-like fovea on the carapace.

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