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taxonomy | emmet |

As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As a proper noun emmet is

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taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    emmet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) An ant.
  • *, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.47:
    • He told him that he saw a vast multitude and a promiscuous, their habitations like molehills, the men as emmets  […].
  • * 1789 , William Blake, Songs of Innocence , :
    • Once a dream did weave a shade / O'er my angel-guarded bed / That an emmet lost its way / Where on grass methought I lay.
  • * 1814 , William Wordsworth, The Excursion , IV.430:
    • [A benignity that] to the emmet gives / Her foresight, and intelligence that makes / The tiny creatures strong by social league.
  • * 1993 , Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford :
    • We are scurrying emmets or pismires with our sad little comedies.
  • (Cornish dialect, pejorative) A tourist.