TAXONOMY
Dictionary entry overview: What does taxonomy mean?
• TAXONOMY (noun)
The noun TAXONOMY has 3 senses:
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
Familiarity information: TAXONOMY used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• TAXONOMY (noun)
Meaning:
A classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("taxonomy" is a kind of...):
hierarchy (a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system)
Meaning:
(biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("taxonomy" is a kind of...):
systematics (the science of systematic classification)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "taxonomy"):
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)
Meaning:
Practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("taxonomy" is a kind of...):
assortment; categorisation; categorization; classification; compartmentalisation; compartmentalization (the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type)
