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As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As a verb bedim is

to make dim; to obscure or darken.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

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

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    bedim

    English

    Verb

  • To make dim; to obscure or darken.
  • * 1843 , '', book 4, chapter VII, ''Tha Gifted :
    • Read in thy New Testament and elsewhere, — if, with floods of mealymouthed inanity, with miserable froth-vortices of Cant now several centuries old, thy New Testament is not all bedimmed for thee.
  • * 1905 , , Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings, The Expository times: Volume 16 :
    • There will be no folly, nor laughter, nor bedimming of truth [...]
  • * 1818 , , volume 3, chapter 7:
    • Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.

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