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taxonomy

[tak-son-uh-mee] / tækˈsɒn ə mi /




NOUN
scientific classification
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Careful classification, known as taxonomy, is essential for understanding the animals that live in the CCZ.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

In “If I Go,” Thompson-Hernández scraps the three-act structure for something more novelistic, a risk that a lesser director might have fumbled but one he turns into a profound taxonomy on grace.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026

He is now widely regarded as the founder of modern taxonomy after introducing the binomial naming system and formally describing more than 10,000 species of plants and animals.

From Science Daily • Dec. 24, 2025

In the emerging taxonomy of eVTOLs, the BlackFly is known as a tilt-aircraft design.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Within Lydia’s taxonomy of crushes are innumerable subspecies, most of which contain no romantic element whatsoever.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner