different between dungy vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

dung +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??i/
• Rhymes: -??i

Adjective

dungy (comparative dungier, superlative dungiest)

1. Resembling or characteristic of dung.
   • 1813, Charles Marshall - A Plain and Easy Introduction to the Knowledge and Practice of Gardening: With Hints on Fish-ponds - Page 354

     […] they may not be drawn up long legged; and by no means to let them have a dungy soil to grow in, or a very rich one […]

2. Covered in dung
   • 1999, J. F. Gracey, David S. Collins, Robert J. Huey - Meat Hygiene page 167

     If, however, excessively dungy animals are offered for transportation, the owner of the animals is requested to clean them.

Anagrams

• Gundy, gundy, nudgy

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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