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As a noun taxonomy

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

As a numeral eleventy is

(humorous) the number , 11 × 10.

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

    eleventy

    English

    Numeral

    (head)
  • (humorous) The number , 11 × 10.
    • Compounds with other numerals: eleventy'''-one'' (= 111), '''''eleventy'''-six'' (= 116), '''''eleventy -first'' (= one-hundred and eleventh), ''etc.
    {{quote-book
    , title=The Fellowship of the Ring , author=JRR Tolkien , page=43, 54 , year=1955 (1974) , passage=[Bilbo] announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first' birthday
    {{quote-book
    , title=State and Interstate Fishery Jurisdiction: Problems and Progress : Proceedings of a Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1979 : October 29-31, 1979 , author=Janet Caudle , page=149 , year=1980 , passage=without having to go back through the thousand and eleventy-three days to alter the plan }}
    {{quote-book
    , title=Networking for Dummies , author=Doug Lowe , page=174 , year=2007 , passage=Eight-Oh-Two-Dot-Eleventy Something [= 802.11a, 802.11b, etc. ]}}
  • (colloquial) An indefinite large number.
    • {{quote-book
    , title=The Atlantic Monthly , chapter=A Little Boy's Utopia , author=Margaret Wilson , page=670 , year=May 1921 , passage=No grown-up people, no babies, no girls. It was a world of boys, eleventy and a hundred strong. }}
    {{quote-book
    , title=Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals , author=Robert M Sapolsky , page=19 , year=2005 , passage=People used to think that the first eleventy letters of the DNA message would comprise Gene 1. }}
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    • Related terms

    * eleventeen * twelfty * teenty English cardinal numbers