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taxonomy | flense |

As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As a verb flense is

to strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.

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

    flense

    English

    Alternative forms

    * flench

    Verb

  • To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
  • * 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 198:
    • In this domain right sex is capital, it flenses the feelings of all the poisonous artifices brought in by the think-box in the guise of clever ideas.
  • * 2001 , Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion , page 191 ISBN 0-380-97901-2:
    • His eyes sprang open. Umegat stared straight at him for the fraction of a second, and Cazaril felt flensed .
  • * 2004 , , The Runes of the Earth , page 5 ISBN 0-399-15232-6:
    • For that reason, among others, he would never evince the particular guantness, the cut and flagrant sense of purpose - all compromise and capacity for surrender flensed away - which had made Thomas Covenant ir-refusable to her.
  • * 2008 , Ian C. Esselemont, Return of the Crimson Guard , page 569 ISBN 978059305809:
    • It engulfed screaming soldiers who dissapeared before his eyes, their flesh, armor, even bone, flensed into a suspended mist that was heading straight for them.
  • * 2011 , Dominic Smith, Bright and Distant Shores , page 106:
    • The Lemakot in the north strangled widows and threw them into the cremation pyres of their dead husbands. If they defeated potential invaders the New Irish hanged the vanquished from banyan trees, flensed their windpipes, removed their heads, left their intestines to jerk in the sun.

    Synonyms

    * flay, fleece, skin