different between perfumer vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From perfume +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??fju?m?/, /?p??fj?m?/

Noun

perfumer (plural perfumers)

1. A person who makes or sells perfume.
   • 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’:

     Affairs went on thus until the latter had attained her twenty-second year, when her great beauty attracted the notice of a perfumer, who occupied one of the shops in the basement of the Palais Royal, and whose custom lay chiefly among the desperate adventurers infesting that neighborhood.

2. One who perfumes something.

Synonyms

• parfumier
• perfumier

Related terms

• perfumery

Translations

Anagrams

• prefemur

Catalan

Etymology

perfum +? -er

Noun

perfumer m (plural perfumers, feminine perfumera)

1. perfumer

Related terms

• perfumeria

Further reading

• “perfumer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “perfumer” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “perfumer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “perfumer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Middle French

Verb

perfumer

1. Alternative form of parfumer

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

Translations