different between meadery vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From mead +? -ery. Cognate with Dutch mederij (“meadery”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?mid??i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mi?d??i/

Noun

meadery (plural meaderies)

1. A place where mead is made.
   • 2008, Patricia Monaghan, Wineries of Wisconsin and Minnesota, Minnesota Historical Society Press (2008), ?ISBN, page 177:

     People used to come to the Upper Midwest's only dedicated meadery and say, "Huh?" Or perhaps something like, "Oh, yeah, mead, isn't that what Beowulf drank?"

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Anagrams

• deary me

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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