different between rurbanite vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

rurban +? -ite

Noun

rurbanite (plural rurbanites)

1. A person who lives in a rurban area; someone who lives in the country but works in the city.
   • 1950, Frank Atwood, "Rurbanites", The Hartford Courant, 5 March 1950:

     If you're a farmer in any Connecticut community the chances are that your next-door neighbor is a "rurbanite." He lives in the country. He may call his home a "farm," but he gets most of his income selling insurance, or working as a toolmaker in a brass factory, or teaching school or working on the road for the State Highway Department.

   • 1987, Flora Lewis, Europe: A Tapestry of Nations, Simon & Schuster (1987), ?ISBN, page 109:

     The average citizen is now a "rurbanite," owning a house on the outskirts of a city in an area where town and countryside have fused into TV-land.

   • 2009, Intermediate Natures: The Landscapes of Michel Desvigne, Birkhäuser (2009), ?ISBN, page 63:

     People who make the choice to live “in the country” are in fact totally cut off from it. These “rurbanites” usually have to take the car to reach the neighboring woods.

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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