different between greasewood vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

grease +? wood

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???i?sw?d/

Noun

greasewood (countable and uncountable, plural greasewoods)

1. Spiny shrubs containing oil, of the genus Sarcobatus, native to the United States, especially Sarcobatus vermiculatus.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 445:

     He worked his way north among the tall cactuses and greasewood, staying just out of sight of the railroad.

2. Any of several other North American desert shrubs with glossy or resinous leaves
   1. Adenostoma fasciculatum (chamise).
   2. Baccharis sarothroides (desert broom)
   3. Glossopetalon spinescens (spiny greasewood, Nevada greasewood).
   4. Gutierrezia (snakeweeds, matchweeds).
   5. Larrea tridentata (creosote bush).

Translations

See also

• fatwood

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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