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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
tax·on·o·my       [tak-son-uh-mee] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.the science or technique of classification.
2.Biology. the science dealing with the description, identification, naming, and classification of organisms.
[Origin: 1805–15; F taxonomie. See taxo-, -nomy]

—Related forms
tax·o·nom·ic       [tak-suh-nom-ik] Pronunciation Key, tax·o·nom·i·cal, adjective
tax·o·nom·i·cal·ly, adverb
tax·on·o·mist, tax·on·o·mer, noun
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tax·on·o·my       (tāk-sŏn'ə-mē)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. tax·on·o·mies
  1. The classification of organisms in an ordered system that indicates natural relationships.
  2. The science, laws, or principles of classification; systematics.
  3. Division into ordered groups or categories: "Scholars have been laboring to develop a taxonomy of young killers" (Aric Press).


[French taxonomie : Greek taxis, arrangement; see taxis + -nomie, method (from Greek -nomiā; see -nomy).]

tax·on'o·mist n.
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
taxonomy 
1828, from Fr. taxonomie (1813), introduced by Linnæus and coined irregularly from Gk. taxis "arrangement" (see taxidermy) + -nomia "method," from -nomos "managing," from nemein "manage" (see numismatics).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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taxonomy

noun
1. a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc 
2. (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification 
3. practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships 

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The American Heritage Science Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
taxonomy       (tāk-sŏn'ə-mē)  Pronunciation Key 


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The scientific classification of organisms into specially named groups based either on shared characteristics or on evolutionary relationships as inferred from the fossil record or established by genetic analysis.

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American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
taxonomy [(tak-son-uh-mee)]

The classification of living things. (See Linnean classification.)


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taxonomy tax·on·o·my (tāk-sŏn'ə-mē)
n.

  1. The classification of organisms in an ordered system that indicates natural relationships.
  2. The science, laws, or principles of classification; systematics.

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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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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