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Taxonomy vs Eiderdown - What's the difference?

taxonomy | eiderdown |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and eiderdown

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while eiderdown is the down of the eider duck, used for stuffing pillows and quilts.

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

    eiderdown

    English

    Alternative forms

    *eider down

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The down of the eider duck, used for stuffing pillows and quilts.
  • (countable) A quilt stuffed with this down.
  • * 1919 ,
    • I entered. It was a very small room, overcrowded with furniture of the style which the French know as Louis Philippe. There was a large wooden bedstead on which was a billowing red eiderdown , and there was a large wardrobe, a round table, a very small washstand, and two stuffed chairs covered with red rep.
  • *1851 ,
    • The landlord was near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heaven’s sake to quit—the bed was soft enough to suit me, and I did not know how all the planing in the world could make eider down of a pine plank.