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English

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• orpin [14th-18th c.]

Etymology

From Old French orpin, Old French orpiment, from Latin auripigmentum (“orpiment”), from aurum (“gold”) + pigmentum (“pigment”)..

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???p(?)?n/

Noun

orpine (plural orpines)

1. Any of several temperate succulent plants of the family Crassulaceae, that have clusters of purple flowers, especially Hylotelephium telephium.
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 207:

     Common Orpine rises up with diverse round, brittle stalks, thick set with fat and fleshy leaves without any order, and little or nothing dented about the edges; of a pale green colour.

2. A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, sometimes approaching red.

Synonyms

• (succulent Sedum): livelong

Related terms

• orpiment

Anagrams

• Perino, Pinero, norepi, opiner, pernio, pioner, porine, pornie, rip one, rope in

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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