taxonomy
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc
Types & categories
- hierarchy hypernym
Related & opposite
- systematist derivation
- taxonomic derivation
Sense 2 noun
(biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification
Types & categories
- systematics hypernym
- cladistics hyponym
Related & opposite
- systematist derivation
- taxonomic derivation
- biology domain topic
Sense 3 noun
practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships
Types & categories
- classification hypernym
Related & opposite
- systematist derivation
- taxonomic derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | systematist |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | taxonomic |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | hierarchy |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | systematist |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | taxonomic |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | biology |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | systematics |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | cladistics |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | systematist |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | taxonomic |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | classification |