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Taxonomy vs Entrail - What's the difference?

taxonomy | entrail |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and entrail

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while entrail is (usually|in the plural) an internal organ of an animal.

As a verb entrail is

(archaic) to interweave or bind.

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

    entrail

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To interweave or bind.
  • * {{quote-book, 1590, , The Faerie Queene, section=Book III Canto VI citation
    • , passage=And in the thickest covert of that shade / There was a pleasant arbour, not by art / But of the trees' own inclination made, / With wanton ivy twine entrailed athwart, / And eglantine and caprifole among, / Fashioned above within their inmost part / That neither Phoebus' beams could through them throng / Nor AEolus' sharp blast could work them any wrong. }}
  • * 1598 , , letter to his son, reprinted in Annals of the reformation and establishment of religion 1824, by [[w:John Strype, John Strype], page 479,
    • Trust not any with thy life, credit, or estate: for it is mere folly for a man to entrail himself to his friend; as though, occasion being offered, he shall not dare to become his enemy.
  • * {{quote-book, 1885, , The Bloody Heart citation
    • , passage=Himself hid by entrailing foliage, / Betwixt whose leafy meshes he could see / That false pair's dalliance and badinage.}}
  • (heraldry) To outline in black.
    • ''A cross entrailed .
  • * 1847 , Henry Gough, John Henry Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table ... , Oxford, Page 124,
    • "Entrailed : outlined, always with black lines. See Adumbration, and Cross entrailed."
  • * 1775 , Hugh Clark, Thomas Wormull, An Introduction to Heraldry: Containing the Origin and Use of Arms; Rules ... , H. Washbourne, Page 122,
    • "Entrailed , a Cross, P.7, n.20, Lee says, the colour need not be named, for it is always sable."

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually, in the plural) An internal organ of an animal.
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  • (obsolete) Entanglement; fold.
    • Synonyms
    * innard, gut, tharm, intestine

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