different between stringybark vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

stringy +? bark

Noun

stringybark (plural stringybarks)

1. Any of a number of Australian eucalyptus trees with fibrous bark, or the wood or bark of such trees.
   • 1974, Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup, Text Classics 2018, p. 54:

     Two of the younger men carried him there on a stretcher of stringybark.

Derived terms

References

• stringybark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eucalyptus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Eucalyptus cinerea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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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