Taxonomy vs Hippophagy - What's the difference?
taxonomy | hippophagy |
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.
The eating of horsemeat.
*1879 , George Fleming (ed.), The Veterinary Journal
*:In Berlin, as in Paris, hippophagy appears to be on the increase. At the present time as many as twenty horses a day are cut up for food.
*1907 , John William Severin Gouley, Dining and Its Amenities
*:...to introduce hippophagy in this country as an economic measure.
*2000 , Tamra Andrews, Nectar & Ambrosia: An Encyclopedia of Food in World Mythology
*:Not long after the advent of Christianity, Pope Gregory III forbade hippophagy because of its association with the worship of pagan gods.