different between supervirile vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

super- +? virile

Adjective

supervirile (comparative more supervirile, superlative most supervirile)

1. Exceptionally virile.
   • 1993, Ruth S El Saffar, Diana de Armas Wilson, Quixotic desire: psychoanalytic perspectives on Cervantes

     In other words, a surname symbolic of weapons and a military career must necessarily represent a supervirile woman...

   • 1997, Frank Bartine Leib, Friendly competitors, fierce companions: men's ways of relating

     In fact, he liked to portray himself as a supervirile type, both in life and in literature. Apparently, he did not always succeed in this...

Related terms

• supervirility

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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