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taxonomy | chymic |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As an adjective chymic is

(obsolete) chemic.

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

    chymic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) chemic
  • *{{quote-book, year=1914, author=Various, title=Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 11, 1914, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Till lastly, when by chymic jolt And sheer corrosion of the thatch, What time the withering woodlands moult My love shall moult to match, And all those curls I loved to beg For keepsakes on the earth be strewed, Leaving her cranium like an egg Incomparably nude. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1738, author=Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, and Tobias Smollett, title=Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Less shone the tresses Egypt's princess[1] wore, Which sweet Callimachus so sung before; 20 Here courtly trifles set the world at odds, Belles war with beaux, and whims descend for gods, The new machines in names of ridicule, Mock the grave frenzy of the chymic fool. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1681, author=Andrew Marvell, title=The Poems of Andrew Marvell, editor=G. A. Aitken, Ed. London: Lawrence & Bullen, page=36-38
    • , passage=So the all-seeing sun each day Distills the world with chymic ray. }}