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English noun: taxonomy | |||
| 1. | taxonomy (group) a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | hierarchy | ||
| 2. | taxonomy (cognition) (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | systematics | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cladistic analysis, cladistics | ||
| Domain category | biological science, biology | ||
| 3. | taxonomy (act) practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization | ||
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