The difference between Differentia and Genus

When used as nouns, differentia means a distinguishing feature which marks a species off from other members of the same genus, whereas genus means a rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species.


check bellow for the other definitions of Differentia and Genus

  1. Differentia as a noun (semantics, logic, taxonomy):

    A distinguishing feature which marks a species off from other members of the same genus.

  1. Genus as a noun (taxonomy):

    a rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank

    Examples:

    "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''."

  2. Genus as a noun:

    A group with common attributes.

  3. Genus as a noun (topology, graph theory, algebraic geometry):

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

  4. Genus as a noun (semantics):

    Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.

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