different between handplant vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

hand +? plant

Noun

handplant (plural handplants)

1. (skateboarding) A move in which the skater balances on his hand after skating up to the top of a halfpipe.
2. A handflower (Chiranthodendron pentadactylon).

Verb

handplant (third-person singular simple present handplants, present participle handplanting, simple past and past participle handplanted)

1. (horticulture) To plant a seed with one's hands, as opposed to a machine or tool.

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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