Taxonomy vs Fossilize - What's the difference?
taxonomy | fossilize |
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.
to make into a fossil
* 1989 , Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
to become a fossil
(figurative, by extension, intransitive) to become inflexible or outmoded
(figurative, by extension, transitive) To make antiquated, rigid, or fixed; to deaden.
* Elizabeth Browning
As a noun taxonomy
is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As a verb fossilize is
to make into a fossil.taxonomy
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(wikipedia taxonomy)Noun
(taxonomies)Synonyms
* alpha taxonomyDerived terms
* folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomySee 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 * ontologyfossilize
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Alternative forms
* fossiliseVerb
(fossiliz)- Most of the booths had been scooped clean by the scalpel-sharp corner of the glacier in the crash. Three remained. Two of them were punctured and, inside, the once-human occupants had been fossilized into the walls by centuries upon centuries of patient ice.
- Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head / Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth.