It is also a name for the page and a half of indecipherable foreplay used in university physics textbooks before they give you the formula for something. Engineering student: I forgot the formula for the volume of a sphere, but I was able to figure it out from the area of a circle using calculus.
Bacterial is the taxonomy, i.e. the rank-based classification, of bacteria. In the scientific classification established by Carolus Linnaeus, each species has to be assigned to a genus (binary nomenclature), which in turn is a lower level of a hierarchy of ranks (family, suborder, order, subclass, class, division/phyla, kingdom and domain).
Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae. family(Noun) A group of people who live together, or one that is similar to one that is related by blood, marriage, law, or custom, or members of one's intimate social group.