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Taxonomy vs Banksian - What's the difference?

taxonomy | banksian |

As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As an adjective Banksian is

of or pertaining to Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist.

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

    banksian

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (botany) Of or pertaining to , English botanist and naturalist.
  • Of or pertaining to (born 1954) or his writings, most notably a utopian style of science fiction.
  • * 2003 , David Langford, Up Through an Empty House of Stars (page 214)
  • Naturally it's compulsive Banksian reading, with lashings of gore, squalor, poison, torture and philosophy.
  • * 2007 , Ian Brown, The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature (page 255)
  • * Books in Scotland (issues 63-68, page 4)
  • And it is in the character and story of Abel that this element of Banksian self-parody shows itself most clearly

    Derived terms

    * * English eponyms