eevee/pokedex — Issue #52: Name the “Seed” in “Bulbasaur, the Seed Pokémon”
Author: encukou
Created: 2012-01-26 21:20:07+00:00
State: open

**Reported by [En-Cu-Kou](http://github.com/encukou) on 2011/04/29 15:09:01 +0000 · Migrated from [Redmine issue 627](http://bugs.veekun.com/issues/627)**

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Alternatives:
– **species**: Used on veekun since the brown version. Also used on the pokemon.com pokédex. Clashes with the “thing with its own pokédex number” concept.
– **category**: Used on pokemonblackwhite.com
– **classification**, **categorization**, **sorting**: edict’s translations of 分類, which is used in the pokédex at www.pokemon.co.jp
– **kind**: used on veekun before the brown version
– **genus**, **phylum**: “the only other part of the bio hierarchy that’s very obviously from that hierarchy”
– **taxonomy**

IRC discussion from Jan. 28, emphasis added:

15:47 < EnCuKou\> veekun should say “Category: Victory Pokémon” instead of “Species: Victory”
**‘phylum’**
that is totally wrong
I am aware
\>:(
however it’s the only other part of the bio hierarchy that’s very obviously from that hierarchy
oh, wait. **‘taxonomy’**?
**genus**?
durr
that also works
haha
I’d still go with **“Classification”** over that
even **“Category”** is better, especially with its officialness points
Category is too generic though
it’s not a category reeeally though :(
yeah…
and that
e.g. genus can contain only one species
doesn’t imply a big grouping
well the point is it’s **not** a biological grouping
there is no link between Flygon and Xatu
it’s more a category than a genus
“Category” at least doesn’t suggest any relation outside of the categorization
I have a bigger beef with the fact that it suggests a system with a fixed list of categories, like types
or the FR/LG habitats
but it’s not even a categorization
I guess that is related to what Eevee said
it’s more just descriptive
yeah
dywypi: jdic @bunrui
Zhorcott: 分類 [ぶんるい] / (n,vs) classification/categorization/sorting/ (P)/
hmmmm
Bulbapedia doesn’t say where they **got** that word, though
and this is from the article “Species”

I’m going with genus for now since it has to be renamed to something.

Redmine metadata:
Updated on: 2011/05/09 03:03:59 +0000
Start date: 2011/04/29

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**Comment by [Zhorken](http://github.com/zhorken) from 2011/05/08 12:34:59 +0000**

I was kidding with genus :(

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**Comment by [Eevee](http://github.com/eevee) from 2011/05/09 03:03:59 +0000**

I kinda like “genus” and don’t have any better ideas.