different between bodyboard vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

body +? board

Noun

bodyboard (plural bodyboards)

1. A piece of foam, usually rectangular in shape, upon which one sits or lies when bodyboarding.

Related terms

• bodyboarder
• bodyboarding

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Verb

bodyboard (third-person singular simple present bodyboards, present participle bodyboarding, simple past and past participle bodyboarded)

1. To surf riding a bodyboard

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Spanish

Etymology

From English bodyboard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bodi?bo?/, [bo.ð?i???o?]

Noun

bodyboard m (uncountable)

1. bodyboarding

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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