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Taxonomy vs Expiree - What's the difference?

taxonomy | expiree |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and expiree

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while expiree is (australia|historical) in penal colonies of early australia, a convict whose sentence had been served1916 , , a short history of australia , chapter v, [http://gutenbergnetau/pgaushtml#scott].

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

    expiree

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, historical) In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict whose sentence had been served.1916 , , A Short History of Australia , Chapter V, [http://gutenberg.net.au/pgaus.html#scott].
  • * 1984 , Lloyd Evans, Paul Llewellyn Nicholls, Convicts and Colonial Society, 1788-1868 , page 276,
    • According to the census of 1870 the number of men still under the charge of the authorities is about four thousand, including those still in confinement; expirees being classed as free men.
  • * 1985 , , Westerly , Volume 30, page 248,
    • Most of them secured a husband within a year or so, but more remarkable is the fact that expirees' competed very successfully against the colonial boys for brides. This was despite the knowledge that a woman who married an ' expiree lost her claim to respectability.
  • * 1995 , , Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society , Volume 81, page 37,
    • Many old expirees received terminal or geriatric care in the Society?s Asylum, but there was a gap between the expiration of their sentences and their requiring terminal care during which time they depended upon their own resources.

    See also

    * emancipist

    References