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taxonomy | adventitious |

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

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

    adventitious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
  • Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 30:
  • The adventitious disappearance of those nearer the the throne than the duke had, moreover, set tongues awagging.
  • (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
  • 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;

    Synonyms

    * (from an external source) extrinsic * accidental, spontaneous, sporadic * (not congenital) acquired

    Derived terms

    * adventitiously * adventitiousness