Taxonomy
WordNet
noun
(1) Practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships
(2) (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification
(3) A classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From + < < .
Noun
- The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
- The classification in a hierarchical system.
See also
- infraclass
- superorder
- order
- suborder
- infraorder
- parvorder
- superfamily
- family
- subfamily
- genus
- species
- subspecies
- superregnum
- regnum
- subregnum
- superphylum
- phylum
- subphylum
- classis
- subclassis
- infraclassis
- superordo