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Taxonomy vs Bindlestiff - What's the difference?

taxonomy | bindlestiff |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and bindlestiff

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while bindlestiff is (us) a tramp (hobo) who carries a bedroll or a bundle of possessions.

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

    bindlestiff

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) A tramp (hobo) who carries a bedroll or a bundle of possessions.
  • * 1950 , James Blish, Cities in Flight :
    • The hobo was a migrant worker, generally honest. The tramp would make a living stealing but there would be mutual respect between them. The bindlestiff on the otherhand was the lowest of the low for he would steal from the bindles of his fellow wanderers.
  • * 1952 , John Steinbeck, East of Eden :
    • And before he knew it he was a bindlestiff himself.
  • * 1967 , , Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes
    • She had been born in Tucson, mother full-blooded Cherokee, father a bindlestiff on his way through.
  • * 2009 , Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice , Vintage 2010, p. 315:
    • AP Finance was tucked somewhere between South Central and the vestigial river, hometown of Indians and bindlestiffs and miscellaneous drinkers of Midnight Special [...].