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whippoorwill

English

Alternative forms

  • whip-poor-will

Etymology

Imitative of its note.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?(h)w?p.?.?w?l/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?w?p.?.?w?l/
  • Hyphenation: whip?poor?will

Noun

whippoorwill (plural whippoorwills)

  1. a nocturnal insectivorous bird of North America, Caprimulgus vociferus, a type of nightjar, named after its characteristic call.

Translations

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  • what does whippoorwill mean
  • what do whippoorwills eat
  • what's a whippoorwill sound like
  • what's a whippoorwill look like
  • what do whippoorwills look like
  • what are whippoorwill peas
  • what is whippoorwill winter
  • what does whippoorwill look like


taxonomy

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

Translations

taxonomy From the web:

  • what taxonomy means
  • what taxonomy are humans
  • what taxonomy do humans belong to
  • what taxonomy is not a type of taxonomy
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