different between cliffed vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

cliff +? -ed

Adjective

cliffed (comparative more cliffed, superlative most cliffed)

1. formed by cliffs
   • 1984, Gerald G. Kuhn, Francis Parker Shepard, Sea cliffs, beaches, and coastal valleys of San Diego County: some amazing histories and some horrifying implications, University of California Press, page 3:

     The cliffed coasts are cut mostly in consolidated rock of somewhat uniform material, which usually results in straight coastlines.

   • 1985, United Nations Environment Programme, International Maritime Organization, Oil spills and shoreline clean-up on the coasts of the Eastern African region, UNEP, page 36:

     The abundance of cliffed coasts around the world reflects the major changes that have taken place between relative levels of land and sea in recent geological times.

   • 2003, J. McKee Smith, Coastal engineering 2002: solving coastal conundrums : proceedings of the 28th International Conference, 7-12 July 2002, Cardiff, Wales, World Scientific, page 662:

     In the case of a cliffed marsh edge, wave heights increase at the edge but are dissipated rapidly in the first 10-20m landward of the cliff.

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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