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Taxonomy vs Feculent - What's the difference?

taxonomy | feculent |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and feculent

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while feculent is any starchy food such as cereals, potatoes etc.

As an adjective feculent is

starchy.

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

    feculent

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Dirty with faeces or other impurities; turbid; foul, filthy, fetid.
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 84:
  • *:At this time in history the streets of London were as foul, feculent and disease-ridden as a series of interconnected dunghills, twice as dangerous as a battlefield, and as infrequently maintained as the lower cells of an asylum dungeon.

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