A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.

An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.

A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.

To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.

any taxon. an assemblage of similar cultivars within a species or interspecific hybrid (Cult. Code, Art. 26). `Congeries of organisms having common characteristics` , e.g. assemblages of related serotypes (1) (Bact. Code, Rec. 8a (3)). See also nomenclature of viruses.

An assemblage of personnel organized to serve a specific purpose or accomplish a task. A group may vary from a single individual assigned part time, to several part- time individual s assigned from other organization s, to several individuals dedicated full-time. [D05184] SA-CMM