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Comment by jaclaz

3 years ago

>where rectangle is a genus of the species square

Wrong battle, I know, but to nitpick the species is more likely quadrilateral.

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bombcar  3 years ago

Quadrilateral would be the family, and rectangle the genus, square the species. Or you could promote quadrilateral to order and designate parallelogram the family.

  • jaclaz  3 years ago

    I thought polygons as the family ...

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