variety vs genus

genus vs variety

variety and genus both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
variety	Yes	No	No	No
genus	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, genus is a hyponym of variety; that is, genus is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than variety:

variety: a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
genus: a general kind of something

Other hyponyms of variety include description, type, antitype, art form, style, flavor, flavour, color, colour, species, brand, make, genre, ilk, like, manner, model, stripe, like, the like, the likes of.

variety (noun)	genus (noun)
noticeable heterogeneity	a general kind of something
a difference that is usually pleasant	(biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species
a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
a show consisting of a series of short unrelated performances
(biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics
a collection containing a variety of sorts of things

Difference between variety and genus

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