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English

Alternative forms

• hag, hagdown, haglin, hagden

Etymology

Unknown. Compare later haglet (“shearwater, petrel”). Attested (as hagden) from the 17th century.

Noun

hagdon (plural hagdons)

1. (regional, now rare) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus, especially, Ardenna gravis (syn. Puffinus gravis, Puffinus major), the great shearwater, and Puffinus stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater.

References

• hagdon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Puffinus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• “hagden, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2016
• hagdon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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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