different between werewolfish vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

werewolf +? -ish

Adjective

werewolfish (comparative more werewolfish, superlative most werewolfish)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a werewolf.
   • 1999, Laurence A. Rickels, The vampire lectures (page 259)

     When one of the girls goes down into the basement, she is devoured by the POV accompanied by audio portions of werewolfish sounds.

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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