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Taxonomy vs Baldachin - What's the difference?

taxonomy | baldachin |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and baldachin

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while baldachin is .

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

    baldachin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1903, author=John Leslie Garner, title=Lucretia Borgia, by=Ferdinand Gregorovius, edition= citation
    • , passage=She rode beneath a purple baldachin , which the doctors of Ferrara--that is, the members of the faculties of law, medicine, and mathematics--supported in turn. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1908, author=Major W. E Frye, title=After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The bronze that formerly ornamented this temple was made use of to fabricate the baldachin of St Peter's. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1928, author=J. K. Huysmans, title=La-bas, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=People will spend thirty thousand francs on an altar baldachin , and ruin themselves for music, and they have to have gas in their churches, and Lord knows what all besides, but when you mention bells they shrug their shoulders. }} ----