different between nosering vs taxonomy

English

Noun

nosering (plural noserings)

1. Alternative form of nose ring
   • 1993, Mohsen Saeidi Madani, Impact of Hindu Culture on Muslims, M D Publications Pvt Ltd (1993), ?ISBN, page 146:

     On the first wedding night of the marriage ceremony, the husband removes the big nosering of the bride, which is the symbolic representation of the girl being a virgin till that moment.

   • 2002, Esther David, Book of Esther, Viking (2002), ?ISBN, page 369:

     […] My mother and grandmother wore nine-yard saris, with heavy anklets, armlets, waist belts and enormous noserings, but they observed all the Jewish rituals.'

   • 2007, Kristen Tsetsi, Homefront, Penxhere Press (2007), ?ISBN, page 225:

     A woman with dyed black hair and a greenstone nosering returns to a story she must have almost finished before I came in.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nosering.

Anagrams

• Ingerson, negronis

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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