Definition of TAXONOMY. Meaning of TAXONOMY. Synonyms of TAXONOMY

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Definition of TAXONOMY

Taxonomy
Taxonomy Tax*on"o*my (-m[y^]), n. [Gr. ta`xis an arrangement, order + no`mos a law.] That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants; the laws or principles of classification.

Meaning of TAXONOMY from wikipedia

- Taxonomy is a practice and science concerned with classification or categorization. Typically, there are two parts to it: the development of an underlying...
- In biology, taxonomy (from Ancient Gr**** τάξις (taxis) 'arrangement' and -νομία (-nomia) 'method') is the scientific study of naming, defining (cir****scribing)...
- Bloom's taxonomy is a framework for categorizing educational goals, developed by a committee of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom in 1956. It was first...
- synonym of Papilio levana in the taxonomic sense emplo**** by the Zoological code. Unlike synonyms in other contexts, in taxonomy a synonym is not interchangeable...
- Human taxonomy is the classification of the human species (systematic name Homo sapiens, Latin: "wise man") within zoological taxonomy. The systematic...
- Linnaean taxonomy can mean either of two related concepts: The particular form of biological classification (taxonomy) set up by Carl Linnaeus, as set...
- Plant taxonomy is the science that finds, identifies, describes, classifies, and names plants. It is one of the main branches of taxonomy (the science...
- biology, taxonomic rank (which some authors prefer to call nomenclatural rank because ranking is part of nomenclature rather than taxonomy proper, according...
- familia, pl.: familiae) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be...
- Bacterial taxonomy is subfield of taxonomy devoted to the classification of bacteria specimens into taxonomic ranks. Archaeal taxonomy are governed by...