different between vomitory vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From Latin vomit?rium, early 17th c.

Noun

vomitory (plural vomitories)

1. The entrance into a theater or other large public venue, where masses of people are disgorged into the stands; a vomitorium

   Synonym: vomitorium
2. (pharmacology) A substance that induces vomiting; an emetic

   Synonyms: emetic, vomitive

Adjective

vomitory (comparative more vomitory, superlative most vomitory)

1. (medicine, pharmacology) Inducing vomiting; emetic

Synonyms

• vomitive

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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