different between alimentary vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From aliment (“food”) +? -ary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æl??m?nt(?)?i/

Adjective

alimentary (comparative more alimentary, superlative most alimentary)

1. Of, or relating to food, nutrition or digestion.
   • 2014, Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, ?ISBN, p. 6

     Like Malthus and Young, [Ricardo] could not imagine that humankind would ever be totally freed from the alimentary imperative.

2. Nourishing; nutritious.

Derived terms

• alimentary canal

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Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

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

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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