taxonomy

1. 1.

   a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc

   Broaderhierarchy
2. 2.

   (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification

   Broadersystematics

   Narrowercladistics

   biology

3. 3.

   practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships

   Broadercategorization

Other forms of taxonomy

plural

taxonomies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about taxonomy

What does taxonomy mean?

taxonomy means "a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in taxonomy?

taxonomy has 4 syllables: tax-o-no-my. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˌtækˈsɔnəˌmi/.

Is taxonomy a common word?

taxonomy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with taxonomy?

7 words rhyme with taxonomy. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.