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taxonomy

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun taxonomy has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

taxonomyn. [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, primarily by consideration of their natural relationships with respect to their structure or genetic origin; the laws or principles of classification; systematics.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A systematic arrangement of objects or concepts showing the relations between them, especially one including a hierarchical arrangement of types in which categories of objects are classified as subtypes of more abstract categories, starting from one or a small number of top categories, and descending to more specific types through an arbitrary number of levels. An ontology usually contains a taxonomy as one of the important principles of organization.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

taxonomy, n.
1 the science of the classification of living and extinct organisms.
2 the practice of this.

Derivative
taxonomic adj. taxonomical adj. taxonomically adv. taxonomist n.
Etymology
F taxonomie (as TAXIS, Gk -nomia distribution)

THESAURUS

taxonomy

aerobiology, agrobiology, analysis, anatomy, animal physiology, anthropology, antonomasia, arrangement, assortment, astrobiology, bacteriology, binomial nomenclature, biochemics, biochemistry, biochemy, bioecology, biological science, biology, biometrics, biometry, bionics, bionomics, biophysics, biosystematics, biosystematy, botany, cataloging, categorization, cell physiology, class, classification, codification, comparative anatomy, conchology, cryobiology, culling, cybernetics, cytology, division, ecology, electrobiology, embryology, entomology, enzymology, ethnobiology, ethology, exobiology, family, filing, genetics, genus, glossology, gnotobiotics, gradation, grading, grouping, helminthology, herpetology, ichthyology, indexing, kingdom, life science, malacology, mammalogy, microbiology, molecular biology, nomenclature, onomastics, onomatology, order, orismology, ornithology, pharmacology, phylum, physiology, pigeonholing, place-names, place-naming, placement, polyonymy, protozoology, radiobiology, ranging, ranking, rating, screening, selection, sifting, sorting, sorting out, species, stratification, subdivision, subordination, systematics, tabulation, taxidermy, terminology, toponymy, triage, trinomialism, typology, virology, xenobiology, zoogeography, zoography, zoology, zoonomy, zoopathology, zoophysics, zootaxy, zootomy

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Arrangement

N arrangement, plan, preparation, disposal, disposition, collocation, allocation, distribution, sorting, assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization, grouping, tabulation, analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion, digest, synopsis, syntagma, table, atlas, file, database, register, organism, architecture, sieve, riddle, screen, sorter, arranged, embattled, in battle array, cut and dried, methodical, orderly, regular, systematic, In vast cumbrous array.

Organization

N organization, organized world, organized nature, living nature, animated nature, living beings, organic remains, fossils, protoplasm, cytoplasm, protein, albumen, structure, organization, organism, biology, natural history, organic chemistry, anatomy, physiology, zoology, botany, microbiology, virology, bacteriology, mycology, naturalist, archegenesis, antherozoid, bioplasm, biotaxy, chromosome, dysmeromorph, ecology, oecology, erythroblast, gametangium, gamete, germinal matter, invagination, isogamy, oogamy, karyaster, macrogamete, microgamete, metabolism, anabolism, catabolism, metaplasm, ontogeny, ovary, ovum, oxidation, phylogeny, polymorphism, protozoa, spermary, spermatozoon, trophoplasm, vacuole, vertebration, zoogloea, zygote, Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, Lamarkism, neoLamarkism, Weismannism, morphology, taxonomy, organic, organized, karyoplasmic, unsegmentic, vacuolar, zoogloeic, zoogloeoid.

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