different between chookhouse vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From chook +? house

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?t??khæ?s/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??kha?s/

Noun

chookhouse (plural chookhouses)

1. (Australia, colloquial) A henhouse.
   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 178:

     The hens were my witness to the ghost. They set up the sort of fuss and panic you hear when a snake enters the chookhouse late at night.

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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