different between wolflike vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

wolf +? -like

Adjective

wolflike (comparative more wolflike, superlative most wolflike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a wolf.
   • 1903, Jack London, The Call of the Wild, New York: Macmillan, Chapter 2, p. 62,^[1]

     And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries through him.

Synonyms

• lupine
• wolven
• wolfish

Anagrams

• flowlike, fowl-like, fowllike

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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