| NOUN | group | taxonomy | a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin / origin etc |
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| cognition | taxonomy | (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification | |
| act | taxonomy | practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships |
| Meaning | A classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin / origin etc. | |
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| Broader | hierarchy | A series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system |
| Spanish | taxonomía | |
| Catalan | taxonomia | |
| Adjectives | taxonomic, taxonomical | of or relating to taxonomy |
| Nouns | taxonomist | a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior |
| Meaning | (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification. | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | biology, biological science | The science that studies living organisms |
| Narrower | cladistics, cladistic analysis | 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 |
| Broader | systematics | The science of systematic classification |
| Spanish | taxonomía | |
| Catalan | taxonomia | |
| Adjectives | taxonomic, taxonomical | of or relating to taxonomy |
| Nouns | taxonomist | a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior |
| Meaning | practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships. | |
|---|---|---|
| Broader | categorization, categorisation, classification, compartmentalization, compartmentalisation, assortment | The act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type |
| Spanish | taxonomía | |
| Catalan | taxonomia | |
| Adjectives | taxonomic, taxonomical | of or relating to taxonomy |
| Nouns | taxonomist | a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior |
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