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Taxonomy vs Avertress - What's the difference?

taxonomy | avertress |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and avertress

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while avertress is a woman, girl, goddess, or other female agent who averts.

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

    avertress

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A woman, girl, goddess, or other female agent who averts.
  • * 1838 : Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine , “The Beacon — from The Agamemnon”, chorus (lines 35–39), page 259
    • When ?neath him yawned th’ expectant grave,
    Nor either parent dar’d to save,
    Tho’ hoary both, the life they gave,
    ?Twas thine in youth to seek the tomb,
    Avertress of thy husband’s doom?!
  • * 1923 : Swami Vijnanananda, The S’rimad Devi Bhagawatam , volume 1, chapter XIX: “On the going to the Svayamvara assembly of Sudars’ana”, verses 34–37 (links: [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uBEkOqvqSMkC&pg=PA268&dq=avertress&lr=], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kt02ZSt2Q8AC&pg=PA242&dq=avertress&lr=], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KwlHAYJR5KcC&pg=PA197&dq=avertress&lr=#PPA198,M1)
    • O Son! Let Ambikâ Devî protect your front; Padmalochanâ protect your back; Pârvatî, your two sides; S’ivâ Devî, all around you; Vârâhî, in dreadful paths; Durgâ, in royal forts, Kâlikâ, in terrible fights; Parames’varî, in the platform hall; Mâtamgî, in the Svayamvara hall; Bhavanî, the Avertress of world, amidst the kings; Girijâ, in mountain passes; Chamundâ, in the sacrificial ground, and let the eternal Kâmagâ, protect you in the forests.

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