Taxonomy vs Hypernym - What's the difference?
taxonomy | hypernym |
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.
(semantics) A word or phrase whose referents form a set including as a subset the referents of a subordinate term.
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and hypernym
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while hypernym is (semantics) a word or phrase whose referents form a set including as a subset the referents of a subordinate term.taxonomy
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(wikipedia taxonomy)Noun
(taxonomies)Synonyms
* alpha taxonomyDerived terms
* folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomySee 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 * ontologyhypernym
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Noun
(en noun)- "Musical instrument" is a hypernym of "guitar" because a guitar is a musical instrument.