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tax⋅on⋅o⋅my

  [tak-son-uh-mee]
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–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] , 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)   
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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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.
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taxonomy [(tak-son-uh-mee)]

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

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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).
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Main Entry: tax·on·o·my
Pronunciation: tak-'sän-&-mE
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -mies
1 : the study of the general principles of scientific classification : SYSTEMATICS
2 : orderlyclassification of plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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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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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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