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‖ summum genus|ˈsʌməm ˈdʒiːnəs|
Pl. ˈsumma ˈgenera.
[L., summum (see prec.), genus kind.]
The highest or most comprehensive division in a classification; in Logic, a genus that is not considered as a species of a higher genus.
1592Nashe P. Penilesse Wks. 1904 I. 235 The diuell, which is the Summum genus to vs all. 1593― Christ's T. ibid. II. 41, I my selfe haue no enemy but Pryde, which is the Summum genus of sinne. 1843De Quincey Ceylon Wks. 1890 VII. 455 In the running over hastily the summa genera of products by which Ceylon will soon make her name known to the ends of the earth. 1870McCosh Laws Disc. Thought i. §35. 28 If we take all things, the Summum Genus is Being; if we take merely an order of things, the Summum Genus is the highest in that order; thus Plant is the Summum Genus in Botany. |
