different between gadrooned vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

gadroon +? -ed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d?u?nd/

Adjective

gadrooned (comparative more gadrooned, superlative most gadrooned)

1. Adorned with gadroons.
   • 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin 2001, p. 11:

     arriving safely, forty minutes later, at the bourne of breakfast, the only breakfast worth the name, the cheminot’s breakfast, the great bowl of coffee laced and gadrooned and filigreed with rum.

Anagrams

• dragooned

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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