Taxonomist vs Taxonomy - What's the difference?
taxonomist | taxonomy |
(taxonomy) Someone whose profession is taxonomy, or who performs taxonomy at a professional level.
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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.
As nouns the difference between taxonomist and taxonomy
is that taxonomist is (taxonomy) someone whose profession is taxonomy, or who performs taxonomy at a professional level while taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification.taxonomist
English
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(en noun)- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist ," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
