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English

Etymology

butter +? nut

Noun

butternut (countable and uncountable, plural butternuts)

1. A North American walnut tree, Juglans cinerea.

   Synonym: white walnut

2. The wood or bark of this walnut tree.
3. The nut of this walnut tree.
4. A dye made from the fruit of this walnut tree.
5. The souari nut.
6. (informal outside South Africa) Butternut squash.

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Further reading

• Juglans cinerea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Juglans cinerea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• nut butter

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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