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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Taxonomy \Tax*on"o*my\ (t[a^]ks*[o^]n"[-o]*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, primarily by consideration of their natural relationships with respect to their structure or genetic origin; the laws or principles of classification; systematics.
A systematic arrangement of objects or concepts showing the relations between them, especially one including a hierarchical arrangement of types in which categories of objects are classified as subtypes of more abstract categories, starting from one or a small number of top categories, and descending to more specific types through an arbitrary number of levels. An ontology usually contains a taxonomy as one of the important principles of organization.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"science of classification," 1819, from French taxonomie (1813), coined irregularly from Greek taxis "arrangement" (see tactics) + -nomia "method," from -nomos "managing," from nemein "manage" (see numismatic). Related: Taxonomic; taxonomist.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The science or the technique used to make a classification. 2 A classification; ''especially'', a classification in a hierarchical system. 3 (context taxonomy uncountable English) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
WordNet
n. a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc
(biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification
practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships
Wikipedia
Taxonomy (from taxis, "arrangement", and -nomia, " method") is the science of defining groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics and giving names to those groups. Organisms are grouped together into taxa (singular: taxon) and these groups are given a taxonomic rank; groups of a given rank can be aggregated to form a super group of higher rank, thus creating a taxonomic hierarchy. The Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus is regarded as the father of taxonomy, as he developed a system known as Linnaean classification for categorization of organisms and binomial nomenclature for naming organisms.
With the advent of such fields of study as phylogenetics, cladistics, and systematics, the Linnaean system has progressed to a system of modern biological classification based on the evolutionary relationships between organisms, both living and extinct. An example of a modern classification is the one published in 2009 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group for all living flowering plant families (the APG III system).
Taxonomy is the practice and science of classification. The word is also used as a count noun: a taxonomy, or taxonomic scheme, is a particular classification. The word finds its roots in the Greek language , taxis (meaning 'order', 'arrangement') and , nomos ('law' or 'science'). Originally taxonomy referred only to the classifying of organisms or a particular classification of organisms. In a wider, more general sense, it may refer to a classification of things or concepts, as well as to the principles underlying such a classification. Taxonomy is different from meronomy which is dealing with the classification of parts of a whole.
Many taxonomies have a hierarchical structure, but this is not a requirement. Taxonomy uses taxonomic units, known as taxa (singular taxon).
Usage examples of "taxonomy".
As a lepidopterist intrigued by problems of taxonomy, Nabokov had long been concerned with notions of relationship, of identity, resemblance and difference.
Enoch Leng, wishes access to the collections of anthropology and mammalogy to conduct research on taxonomy and classification, and to prepare comparative essays in physical anthropology, human osteology, and phrenology.
As it turned out, the whistler was only the first of a family of sferics whose taxonomy was to include clicks, hooks, risers, nose-whistlers and one like a warbling of birds called the dawn chorus.
He explained his reason for being on Barchan, his notions of taxonomy, and his observations of the Shellbacks.
A certain species of thermotropic eel-like creature nearly two meters long had biologists almost coming to blows over its taxonomy.
His activity was by no means confined to palaeobotany, but extended into all branches of botany, more particularly anatomy and phanerogamic taxonomy.
Atmospheric surveys, taxonomy, etiology of local diseases, once they managed to talk enough to the local species to find out what their diseases were-once they figured out how to talk to the species-if the species even wanted toMcCoy rubbed his head.
Here too, the taxonomy gets tricky because some of the Zingiberaceae have been classified by their rhizomes as well as their seed pods.
Granted that psychologists have described a whole taxonomy of memory, procedural and declarative, episodic and semantic, working and reference, should one expect similar underlying biochemical and cellular changes to be involved in each, or would every form of memory have its own special biochemistry?
He blinks and the supremely languid draw of his lids suggests whole taxonomies of boredom beyond human reckoning.
They were called "prairie goats," which they were not, but systematic taxonomy of fauna and flora on New Beginnings had not gone far.
There are indeed virtues in both cladism and traditional evolutionary taxonomy, and I don't much mind how people classify animals so long as they tell me clearly how they are doing it.
Not content with a perfectly sensible belief that there is something to be said for leaving evolutionary and ancestral assumptions out of the practice of taxonomy, a belief that they share with pheneticist 'distance measurers', some transformed cladists have gone right over the top and concluded that there must be something wrong with evolution itself!
As it turned out, the whistler was only the first of a family of sferics whose taxonomy was to include clicks, hooks, risers, nose-whistlers and one like a warbling of birds called the dawn chorus.
For evolutionary biologists there is something very special about the classification of living organisms, something that is not true of any other kind of taxonomy.