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taxonomy | blowsy |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As an adjective blowsy is

having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face.

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

    blowsy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * blowzy

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face.
  • *
  • * 1913 , , The Day of Days , ch. 13,
  • *:. . . a man of, say, well-preserved sixty, with a blowsy plump face and fat white side-whiskers.
  • (chiefly, of a woman) Slovenly or unkempt, in the manner of a beggar or slattern.
  • * 1813 , , Pride and Prejudice , ch. 8,
    • Her hair so untidy, so blowsy !
  • Unrefined, countrified.
  • * 1921 , , The Path of the King , ch. 11,
    • He longed for the warmth and the smells of his favourite haunts—Gilpin's with oysters frizzling in a dozen pans, and noble odours stealing from the tap-room, the Green Man with its tripe-suppers, Wanless's Coffee House, noted for its cuts of beef and its white puddings. He would give much to be in a chair by one of those hearths and in the thick of that blowsy fragrance.

    References

    *" blowsy" at OneLook® Dictionary Search . * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.