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Taxonomy

noun
1.
A classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc.
2.
(biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification.
3.
Practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships.





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... mind all the arguments for and against the present system of taxation, (that is to say, he made up his mind the minute he read the article,) that what the present tariff needs, is a more thorough application and a better classification; or, what the technologists call Taxonomy, which term is suggested to him by a work on the subject which he has been recently studying. (That is to say, he looked in the dictionary to find out what Taxidermy meant, and seeing Taxonomy there, snapped it up for a sort of collateral pun.) ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 5, April 30, 1870 • Various


Words linked to "Taxonomy" :   biological science, taxonomic, taxonomical, classification, hierarchy, categorisation, categorization, cladistic analysis, taxonomist, compartmentalisation, assortment, compartmentalization, biology, cladistics, systematics


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