Google's Product type VS Category

[widgetmon]

While I see a fairly clear definition of "Google Product Type" both in Shopsite Google Shopping/ Merchant center feed or in Google merchant, I see not clear definition of either as to what "Category" is.
Presume Column A in the Google Taxonomy.en-US.XLS ????
cheers to all,
Widgetmon

[loren_d_c]

http://www.shopsite.com/help/12.1/en-US/sc/pro/add.product.html

Google Product Category Products submitted to Google Merchant Center require categorization using Google's Product Category Taxonomy. From the "Browse the Taxonomy" section of their page, use the search bar or navigate with the arrows to an appropriate category, then select and copy the text provided(without the quotation marks) into this field.

Here is Google's doc page and lists of their categories:

https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/160081

-Loren