Usually means: Highest category in a hierarchy.
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  1. summum genus: Merriam-Webster
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Definitions from Wiktionary (summum genus)

▸ noun:  (logic, semantics) The highest, most all-inclusive genus; the one that is not a species of any other genus.

Similar:
summe, summation, total, sum-total, totalism, sumset, subsum, maximum, supremum, sum total, more...

Opposite:
infimspecies, lowest species, ultimate species

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Similar:
summe, summation, total, sum-total, totalism, sumset, subsum, maximum, supremum, sum total, more...

Opposite:
infimspecies, lowest species, ultimate species



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