different between peevishly vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

peevish +? -ly

Adverb

peevishly (comparative more peevishly, superlative most peevishly)

1. In a peevish manner.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XI:

     "See / Or shut your eyes," said Nature peevishly, / "It nothing skills: I cannot help my case: / 'Tis the Last Judgment's fire must cure this place, / Calcine its clods and set my prisoners free."

   • 1938, Evelyn Waugh, Scoop, book I, ch. 2,1:

     His uncles peevishly claimed the paper.

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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