different between redbug vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

red +? bug

Noun

redbug (plural redbugs)

1. A particular kind of insect, a member of the family Pyrrhocoridae.
   • 1960, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, chapter 13,

     Atticus paused, watching me locate an elusive redbug on my leg.

     "Gentle breeding," he continued, when I had found and scratched it,....

Anagrams

• Burdge, bedrug, budger

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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