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English

Etymology

From amber (“yellow color”) + jack (“fish of family Carangidae”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æm.b?.d?æk/

Noun

amberjack (countable and uncountable, plural amberjacks)

1. Any of several large food and game yellowtail fishes of the genus Seriola, found in warm waters of all oceans.
   • 1925, Zane Grey, Tales of Fishing Virgin Seas, 2000, page 111,

     It was an amberjack, and twice as large as any I had ever seen before. As I drew up the captain's snapper this amberjack came to the surface, and I certainly yelled.

   • 2006, Jerald Horst, Mike Lane, Angler's Guide to Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, page 223,

     Greater amberjacks have 11-19 gill rakers, a long anal fin base, 7 dorsal fin spines, and 30-34 dorsal fin rays.

Derived terms

• flat amberjack
• greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili)
• Japanese amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata)
• lesser amberjack (Seriola fasciata)
• yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi)

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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