Taxonomy vs Jurassic - What's the difference?
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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.
(label) Of or pertaining to the second period of the Mesozoic era, a time still dominated by dinosaurs.
* 1990 , Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park , Alfred A. Knopf, p 94:
Of or pertaining to the people or region near the Jura Mountain Range of Europe.
* 1910 , Peter Kropotkin, “Anarchism”, in Encyclopædia Britannica .
The period from 201.3±0.2 to 145 million years ago, after the Triassic and before the Cretaceous; the geologic systems of this period.
* D. M. Kermack, K. A. Kermack, The Evolution of Mammalian Characters :
As a noun taxonomy
is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As an adjective Jurassic is
of or pertaining to the second period of the Mesozoic era, a time still dominated by dinosaurs.As a proper noun Jurassic is
the period from 201.3±0.2 to 145 million years ago, after the Triassic and before the Cretaceous; the geologic systems of this period.taxonomy
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* 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 * ontologyjurassic
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Adjective
(wikipedia Jurassic) (-)- His father squinted at the skeleton. “What is it, Jurassic'?” “Jeez. No. Cretaceous.” “Cretaceous? What's the difference between Cretaceous and '''Jurassic'''?” “Only about a hundred million years,” Tim said. “Cretaceous is older?” “No, Dad, ' Jurassic is older.”
- The Jurassic , the Spanish and the Italian federations and sections of the International Working Men's Association, as also the French, the German and the American anarchist groups, were for the next years the chief centres of anarchist thought and propaganda.
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- [p 108] Like the Forest Marble Beds in the Middle Jurassic , the Purbeck Beds of the Upper Jurassic are deltaic or estuarine in origin, so as well as mammals they contain small, presumably freshwater, crocodiles and the first indisputable lizards.
- [p 109] This is less surprising if it is recalled that in the Upper Jurassic , Europe and North America were joined to form Laurasia and the Atlantic Ocean still had to be formed [...]
