different between fishskin vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

fish +? skin

Noun

fishskin (plural fishskins)

1. The skin of a fish.
   • 1991, Joseph Bruchac, Native American Stories, from Keepers of the Earth (Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, ?ISBN, page 67:

     His tent was not beautiful and covered with soft skins. It was made of fishskins and full of holes so that wind and snow blew in. Her bed was not made of soft bearskins, but of hard walrus hide.

   Certain fishskins are used to make bags.

See also

• fishskin disease (ichthyosis)

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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