| 单词 | taxonomy |
| 释义 | taxonomy (once / 23686 pages) n Taxonomy is all about organizing and classifying. To make it sound more scientific, you could refer to your project of reorganizing your spice rack according to smell as a taxonomy of spices. Taxonomy is a word used mainly in biology to talk about classifying living organisms, organizing them according to their similarities. If you've ever seen a chart with animals divided into species, genus, and family, you know what scientific taxonomy is. The word comes very straightforwardly from Greek words for "arrangement" — taxis — and "method" — nomia. So any special method for arranging or organizing things can be called taxonomy. WORD FAMILYtaxonomy: taxonomic, taxonomical, taxonomist+/taxonomic: taxonomically/taxonomist: taxonomists USAGE EXAMPLESAs a prerequisite for these actions, the community must agree on accepted taxonomy and nomenclature. Nature(Oct 25, 2016) Taken in Mexico, Italy, Japan, Mozambique and elsewhere, these photographs are far from ordinary botany or taxonomy. New York Times(Oct 18, 2016) But the assessment of mental disorders changed to a more objective system of taxonomy in 1980 with the publication of the DSM-III. Slate(Oct 12, 2016) 1n a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc Hyper hierarchy a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system 2n practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships Hyper assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type 3n (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification Hypo|Hyper cladistic analysis, cladistics a system of biological taxonomy based on the quantitative analysis of comparative data and used to reconstruct cladograms summarizing the (assumed) phylogenetic relations and evolutionary history of groups of organisms systematics the science of systematic classification |
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