different between truculently vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

truculent +? -ly

Adverb

truculently (comparative more truculently, superlative most truculently)

1. With aggression; savagely.
   • 1954, William Golding, Lord of the Flies, chapter 11

     Truculently they squared up to each other but kept just out of fighting distance?

Synonyms

• (with agression): aggressively, belligerently, cruelly, defiantly, ferociously, savagely

Related terms

• truculence
• truculent

Translations

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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