different between unsisterly vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

un- +? sisterly

Adjective

unsisterly (comparative more unsisterly, superlative most unsisterly)

1. Not sisterly; not befitting a sister.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Volume I, Letter 43,^[1]

     […] I desire I may throw myself at my father’s and mother’s feet, and hear from them what their sentence is. I shall at least avoid, by that means, the unsisterly insults I meet with from you.

   • 1818, Jane Austen, Persuasion, Chapter 6,^[2]

     Mary was not so repulsive and unsisterly as Elizabeth, nor so inaccessible to all influence of hers […]

   • 1911, Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Story Girl, Chapter 1,^[3]

     Felicity tossed her golden head and shot an unsisterly glance at Dan.

Derived terms

• unsisterliness

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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