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English

Alternative forms

• frigate bird

Etymology

frigate +? bird

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??.??t?b?d/

Noun

frigatebird (plural frigatebirds)

1. Any of five species of bird in the genus Fregata, the only genus in the family Fregatidae.
   • 2011, Penny Olsen, Leo Joseph, Stray Feathers: Reflections on the Structure, Behaviour and Evolution of Birds, page 176,

     The oceanic frigatebirds are represented in Australia by three species: the Great and Lesser Frigatebirds and endemic Christmas Island Frigatebird (pictured).

   • 2011, David Horwell, Pete Oxford, Galápagos Wildlife, 3rd Edition, page 64,

     Often called man o' war birds, they are notorious as piratical cleptomaniacs that steal food from other birds at every opportunity. This reputation is justified, but frigatebirds are also capable of an 'honest' living.

     It would seem that a frigatebird can discriminate between a bird with a full gullet and one which is empty. An unlucky booby or tropicbird may be plucked out of the air, dangled by the tail-tip and shaken until it regurgitates its food, which the frigatebird then makes off with.

Hyponyms

• (bird of family Fregatidae): (magnificent frigatebird): man o' war bird, pirate bird

Derived terms

• Ascension frigatebird (Fregata aquila)
• Christmas frigatebird (Fregata andrewsi)
• Christmas Island frigatebird (= Christmas frigatebird)
• magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens)
• great frigatebird (Fregata minor)
• lesser frigatebird (Fregata ariel)

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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