neap

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and neap

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while neap is the tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals or neap can be .

As an adjective neap is

designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is least difference between high tide and low tide.

As a verb neap is

to trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.