different between butterine vs taxonomy

English

Noun

butterine (countable and uncountable, plural butterines)

1. An imitation butter prepared from animal fat with other ingredients.
   • 1894, "Adulteration of Fruit Preserves and Other Foods" by R. C. Kedzie in Twenty-fourth annual report of the secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan

     If a man sells you anything as good as what you ask for, but yet entirely different, are you cheated? […] [A] man may say his butterine is as pure and wholesome as genuine butter, and therefore why not sell it as butter?

References

• butterine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• intertube, turbiteen

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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