different between bisexuality vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

bisexual +? -ity.

Pronunciation

Noun

bisexuality (countable and uncountable, plural bisexualities)

1. (of humans or other animals) The state of being sexually or romantically attracted to members of either sex or gender.
2. (chiefly botany) The state of being bisexual (“having both male and female parts or roles”).
   • 1926, Dorothy E. Newton, The Bisexuality of Individual Strains of Coprinus Rostrupianus
   • 1983, Entomological Society of America, Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America:

     Recall from earlier in this paper that H. longicornis consists of obligatory bisexual diploid races (20+XX 0; 20+X) […] and variance is obscured because of the simultaneous variables of method of reproduction (bisexuality vs. thelytoky) and   […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bisexuality.

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See also

• (sexual orientations) sexual orientation; asexual (-ity, ace), bisexual (-ity, bi), demisexual (-ity, demi), graysexual (-ity), heterosexual (-ity, straight), homosexual (-ity, gay, lesbian), omnisexual (-ity), pansexual (-ity, pan), plurisexual (-ity), polysexual (-ity), robosexual (-ity), sapiosexual (-ity), androsexual (-ity), gynesexual (-ity) ^{(Category: en:Sexual orientations)}

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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