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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)

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