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TAXONOMY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("taxonomy" is a kind of...):
assortment; categorisation; categorization; classification; compartmentalisation; compartmentalization (the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type)
Derivation:
taxonomic; taxonomical (of or relating to taxonomy)
taxonomist (a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("taxonomy" is a kind of...):
systematics (the science of systematic classification)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "taxonomy"):
cladistic analysis; cladistics (a taxonomic system of classifying species based on the branching patterns of cladograms that are built to infer phylogenetic relations)
Derivation:
taxonomic; taxonomical (of or relating to taxonomy)
taxonomist (a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("taxonomy" is a kind of...):
hierarchy (a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system)
Derivation:
taxonomic; taxonomical (of or relating to taxonomy)
taxonomist (a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior)
