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Taxonomy vs Elegiac - What's the difference?

taxonomy | elegiac |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and elegiac

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while elegiac is a poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.

As an adjective elegiac is

of, or relating to an elegy.

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

    elegiac

    English

    (wikipedia elegiac)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to an elegy.
    • the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter
  • Expressing sorrow or mourning.
  • * Elizabeth Browning
    • Elegiac griefs, and songs of love.

    Quotations

    * 1808 , , Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field , "Canto the Third: Introduction": *: Hast thou no elegiac verse *: For Brunswick's venerable hearse?

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter
  • * {{quote-book, 1748, John Upton, Critical Observations on Shakespeare, page=385 citation
    • , passage=His saphics are worse, if possible, than his elegiacs }}