Meaning of TAXONOMY
| Pronunciation: | | tak'sânumee
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- [n] practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships
- [n] (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification
- [n] a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc
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| | See Also: | | assortment, categorisation, categorization, cladistics, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization, hierarchy, systematics | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Tax*on"o*my\ (-m[y^]), n. [Gr. ta`xis an arrangement,
order + no`mos a law.]
That division of the natural sciences which treats of the
classification of animals and plants; the laws or principles
of classification.
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| | 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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| | Definition: | | the theory of classification. |
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