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English

Etymology

From French cassie.

Noun

cassie (countable and uncountable, plural cassies)

1. (US) A thorny shrub with fragrant yellow flowers, Vachellia farnesiana; the needle bush.
2. A perfume obtained from this plant.

Anagrams

• Caisse, acises, essiac, saices

French

Etymology

From Occitan cacìo, from acacia. Doublet of acacia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.si/

Noun

cassie f (plural cassies)

1. needle bush, cassie
2. cassie (perfume)

Further reading

• “cassie” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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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