taxonomic
/taksəˈnɒmɪk
/ /-səˈnɒmɪk(ə)l/(also taxonomical)
adjective chiefly Biology
Concerned with the classification of things, especially organisms: the taxonomic diversity of bees extensive taxonomic sampling...
- By passing through the indexing process, the document is consistently aligned against a taxonomic standard.
- Genetic engineering has introduced a novel ability to move genes across very different taxonomic groups and accelerated the rate of evolutionary change.
- We are developing our own taxonomic descriptions for those species.
Derivatives
taxonomically
/ adverb ...- The coloration was found in a wide variety of taxonomically diverse vascular plants.
- Some of the species being sorted out taxonomically are already relatively rare.
- In terms of their variability, teeth are not the best taxonomically diagnostic character at the species level.