different between pythoness vs taxonomy

English

Etymology 1

See Pythoness.

Noun

pythoness (plural pythonesses)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Pythoness
2. A female soothsayer

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Etymology 2

python +? -ess

Noun

pythoness (plural pythonesses)

1. A female python.
   • 1862, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 56,

     On the fifteenth of January, it was discovered that the pythoness had excluded rather more than a hundred dirty-white, leathery-looking eggs.

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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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