different between necropoleis vs taxonomy

English

Alternative forms

• nekropoleis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??k??.p?.l??z/

Noun

necropoleis

1. plural of necropolis
   • 1856, Martin Farquhar Tupper, Paterfamilias's diary of everybody's tour: Belgium and the Rhine, Munich, Switzerland, Milan…, p288

     Kensall Green, though incipient, is far more picturesque; and several American necropoleis beat it hollow.

   • 2000, Thelma Katrina Thomas, Late Antique Egyptian Funerary Sculpture: images for this world and the next, pXXIX

     Ancient necropoleis were cities for the dead where the dead might be active in this world, appearing, speaking, and performing actions that could be perceived by and affect the living.

   • 2007, Christopher Haas, Alexandria in Late Antiquity: Topography and Social Conflict, p213

     Although Christians frequently met in suburban cemeteries during the second and third centuries, to our knowledge none of these necropoleis became the site…

Anagrams

• sceloporine

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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