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Taxonomy vs Beggarliness - What's the difference?

taxonomy | beggarliness |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and beggarliness

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while beggarliness is (rare) the state or characteristic of being or resembling a beggar; destitution.

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

    beggarliness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rare) The state or characteristic of being or resembling a beggar; destitution.
  • * 1906 , , The Shuttle , ch. 18:
    • Angry duns, beggarliness of income, scarcity of the necessaries and luxuries which dignity of rank demanded, the indifference and slights of one's equals, and the ignoring of one's existence by exalted persons, were all hideous enough to Lord Mount Dunstan.
  • * 1913 , , The Day of Days , ch. 8:
    • And suddenly the fifty-cent tip previously bestowed upon the servitor seemed, to one unexpectedly fallen heir to the princely fortune then in P. Sybarite's pockets, the very nadir of beggarliness .
  • * 2008 , "Nigeria: Wealth is Not a Measure of Achievement," AllAfrica.com , 16 Jan.:
    • While the ant had enough in store to last him the famine, the grasshopper was reduced to beggarliness !