summum genus

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The highest, most all-inclusive genus; the one that is not a species of any other genus.
    — Summum genus, in its strictest sense, is that all-extensive term under which every object of whatever kind may be classed, and of every one of which it may be affirmatively predicated: the word which is generally used to denote such genus is substance, or, as some call it, being. ... ; thus by ornithologist, bird would be regarded as the summum genus under which he would arrange the different subdivisions of birds ...

词形变化

summa genera plural

词汇关系

反义词
infima species

词源

From Latin. Literally “highest genus”.
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