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taxonomy | incommodious |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As an adjective incommodious is

(of a place occupied by people) uncomfortable or inhospitable, especially due to being cramped.

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

    incommodious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of a place occupied by people) Uncomfortable or inhospitable, especially due to being cramped.
  • * 1859 , , A Tale of Two Cities , ch. 7:
    • Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar . . . was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious .
  • * 1909 , , "Venice" in ''Italian Hours:
    • The place is small and incommodious , the pictures are out of sight and ill-lighted, the custodian is rapacious, the visitors are mutually intolerable, but the shabby little chapel is a palace of art.
  • * 2010 June 15, Katherine Knorr, " Contemplating Art, and Its Sideshow," New York Times (retrieved 19 July 2012):
    • In this they succeeded last week, despite menacing clouds and slick pavement, filling to capacity (and until past midnight) the 1937 building’s incommodious terrace with a mostly young and fairly international crowd.
  • Discomforting, inconvenient, or unsuitable.
  • * 1781 , , "Savage" in Lives of the Poets :
    • He was sometimes so far compassionated by those who knew both his merit and distresses that they received him into their families, but they soon discovered him to be a very incommodious inmate.
  • * 1859 , , Adam Bede , ch. 52:
    • "What a silly you must be!" a comment which Tommy followed up by seizing Dinah with both arms, and dancing along by her side with incommodious fondness.
  • * 1865 , , The Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants , ch. 1:
    • A dense whorl of many leaves would apparently be incommodious for a twining plant.

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