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taxonomy | kennelled |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As a verb kennelled is

past tense of kennel.

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

    kennelled

    English

    Alternative forms

    * kenneled

    Verb

    (head)
  • (kennel)

    • kennel

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from a *canile , ultimately from (etyl) canis

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A house or shelter for a dog.
    • – We want to look at the dog kennels .
    – That's the pet department, second floor.
  • A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.
    • The town dog-catcher operates the kennel for strays.
    She raises registered Dalmatians at her kennel .
  • (UK) The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * 1843 , '', book 3, ch. IX, ''Working Aristocracy
    • A world of mere Patent-Digesters will soon have nothing to digest: such world ends, and by Law of Nature must end, in ‘over-population;’ in howling universal famine, ‘impossibility,’ and suicidal madness, as of endless dog-kennels run rabid.
  • The hole of a fox or other animal.
    • Synonyms
    * (shelter for a dog) doghouse

    Verb

  • To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).
    • While we're away our friends will kennel our pet poodle.
  • To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
  • * L'Estrange
    • The dog kennelled in a hollow tree.

    Etymology 2

    See channel, canal.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A gutter at the edge of a street.
  • * 1899 , Guy Boothby, Pharos the Egyptian
    • A biting wind whistled through the streets, the pavements were dotted with umbrella-laden figures, the kennels ran like mill-sluices, while the roads were only a succession of lamp-lit puddles through which the wheeled traffic splashed continuously.
    (Bishop Hall)
  • (obsolete) A puddle.