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Meaning of TAXOLOGY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Tax*ol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ta`xis arrangement + -logy.]
(Biol.)
Same as {Taxonomy}.
 
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Biology Dictionary
 
 Definition: The theories and techniques of naming, describing, and classifying organisms. The taxonomic hierarchy is, from top to bottom: kingdom, phylum (for animals) or division (for plants and fungi), class, order, family, genus, species.
 

 

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