different between deadborn vs taxonomy

English

Alternative forms

• dead-born

Etymology

dead +? born

Adjective

deadborn (not comparable)

1. (dated, rare) Stillborn.
   • 1777, David Hume, Essays Moral, Political, Literary, "My Own Life,"

     Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 6 - Hades,

     Only a mother and deadborn child ever buried in the one coffin.

Anagrams

• end board, endboard

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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