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Taxonomy vs Fruitseller - What's the difference?

taxonomy | fruitseller |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and fruitseller

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while fruitseller is one who sells fruit.

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

    fruitseller

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who sells fruit.
  • * 1891 , Oscar Wilde, A House of Pomegranates , Moffat, Yard and Company (1918), page 123:
    • In the market?place stand the fruitsellers , who sell all kinds of fruit: ripe figs, with their bruised purple flesh, melons, smelling of musk and yellow as topazes, citrons and rose?apples and clusters of white grapes, round red?gold oranges, and oval lemons of green gold.
  • * 2003 , Ruskin Bond, Rusty: The Boy from the Hills , Puffin Book (2003), ISBN 9780143335474, page 46:
    • The scooter swerved into a fruit stall and came to a standstill under a heap of bananas, while the scooterist found himself in the arms of an indignant fruitseller .
  • * 2008 , Peter Manseau, Songs for the Butcher's Daughter , Free Press (2008), ISBN 9781416538707, page 100:
    • He kept daring me to steal an apple from the fruitseller' s wagon.
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    • Synonyms

    *fruiterer, fruitmonger, coster, costermonger