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English

Wikispecies

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• butter-fish

Etymology

From butter +? fish.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?t?f??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?t??f??/

Noun

butterfish (plural butterfish or butterfishes)

1. Any of various species of fish having a slippery mucous coating, especially
   1. Perciform fish of the family Stromateidae, including the genera Pampus, Peprilus and Stromateus.
   2. A rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus, an eel-like fish found in the intertidal and subtidal zones of the North Atlantic.
   3. The New Zealand fish Odax pullus, also known as greenbone.
   4. (obsolete) The Murray perch, Oligorus mitchelli; an Australian perciform fish of Murray river, now known as trout cod, Maccullochella macquariensis [1], [2].

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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