different between mortally vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From Middle English mortally, equivalent to mortal +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??t?li/

Adverb

mortally (comparative more mortally, superlative most mortally)

1. Fatally; in such a way as to cause death. [from 14th c.]

   The king was mortally wounded in the battle.

2. (obsolete) As a mortal. [16th-17th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.1:

     And all the depth of rightfull doome was taught / By faire Astræa with great industrie, / Whilest here on earth she lived mortallie […]

Translations

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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