Taxonomy vs Adventitious - What's the difference?
taxonomy | adventitious |
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.
From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 30:
(genetics, medicine) Not congenital; acquired.
(biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
* 1985 , , H. T. Clifford, & P. F. Yeo, The Families of the Monocotyledons , page 101
As a noun taxonomy
is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As an adjective adventitious is
from an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.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 * ontologyadventitious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The adventitious disappearance of those nearer the the throne than the duke had, moreover, set tongues awagging.
- The Velloziaceae have evolved a woody stem which is covered with a layer of adventitious roots mingled with the fibres of the old leaf sheaths;