Taxonomy vs Colored - What's the difference?
taxonomy | colored |
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.
Having a particular or kind of color.
* The room was colored''' red, with a dark-'''colored rug.
Having prominent colors; colorful.
* The singer wore a colored shirt.
Influenced pervasively but subtly.
* My opinions are colored by my upbringing.
Of skin color other than the white; in particular: black.
* Being of an older generation, they considered themselves "colored ladies".
Of neither black nor white skin color.
* Most of the colored community speaks Afrikaans, whereas languages like Xhosa or Venda are typically spoken by blacks and English is spoken mostly by whites.
(chiefly, historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
(color)
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and colored
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while colored is a colored person.As an adjective colored is
having a particular or kind of color.As a verb colored is
(color).taxonomy
English
(wikipedia taxonomy)Noun
(taxonomies)Synonyms
* alpha taxonomyDerived terms
* folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomySee 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 * ontologycolored
English
Alternative forms
* coloured (British spelling)Adjective
(en adjective)- a black''' drinking fountain''; ''a '''black hospital