different between bastioned vs taxonomy

English

Adjective

bastioned (not comparable)

1. Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
   • 1919, Achmed Abdullah, "Pro Patria" in Fear and Other Stories, Chapter IV, [1]

     As he walked stiffly aslant against the booming northern wind, he tried to marshal his thoughts, tried to dovetail for himself a picture of what had happened behind the grim, bastioned walls of the lamasery and of what was going to happen […]

   • 1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Collins, 1998, Chapter 5,

     To the North there were low pale-colored hills, in places bastioned with rock.

Verb

bastioned

1. simple past tense and past participle of bastion

Anagrams

• botanised, debations

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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