different between mommy vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From mom +? -y.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mi

Noun

mommy (plural mommies)

1. (US, Canada, usually childish) Mother.

Synonyms

• ma, mama, mamma, mom (US, Canada), momma (US), mum (British), mummy (British)

Descendants

• ? Hebrew: ??????? (mámi)

Translations

Verb

mommy (third-person singular simple present mommies, present participle mommying, simple past and past participle mommied)

1. (US, Canada, rare, informal) To treat someone like a mother would; to mother someone.

Adjective

mommy (comparative mommier, superlative mommiest)

1. (US, Canada, rare, informal, chiefly in the superlative) Characteristic of a mother; motherly.

   She is the mommiest of mommies.

   • 2013, Erin MacPherson, The Christian Mama's Guide to Having a Baby

     I am smack-dab in the middle of the mommiest years of my life. There are toys strewn across my once-pristine floors, goldfish crackers in my couch cushions, and empty juice boxes in my car.

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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