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taxonomy | majorly |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As an adverb majorly is

(informal) significantly; very, very much.

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

    majorly

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (informal) significantly; very, very much
  • * 1984, Joseph Westlund, Shakespeare's Reparative Comedies: A Psychoanalytic View of the Middle Plays , University of Chicago Press, Page 92
  • *:“Campus police break up parties routinely, but nobody really gets majorly busted.”
  • * 2000, Scholastic, Inc. Staff (eds), Diary of a Junior Year , Scholastic Paperbacks, Page 135
    • The thing is I am majorly stressing because I have no prom date set up.
  • * 2004, John Ringo & Julie Cochrane, Cally's War , Baen Books
    • The Taco Hell was okay the last time I tried it, but that was a few months ago when I was majorly low on cash.
  • * 2005, Lauren Mechling, Laura Moser, The Rise and Fall of a 10th-grade Social Climber , Graphia Books, Page 173
  • *:“Mimi, here’s the thing. When somebody in that crowd goes and does something majorly out of control like that, it’s only a matter of days before the rest of the girls in school make sure they've caught up. [...]”
  • mostly, primarily
  • * 1930, American Orthopsychiatric Association, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry , American Orthopsychiatric Association, Page 634
    • Significant contrasts can be drawn between the course of personality development in which children are majorly reared by grandparents who have [...]
  • * 1963, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) and British Economic Association, The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journey of the British Economic Association , Macmillan, Page 686
    • This is due not solely, or even majorly, to the fact the above type of analysis concerns itself primarily with what will happen in the long run.
  • * 2000, Bernard F. Feldman, Joseph G. Zinkl, Nemi C. Jain (eds), Schalm's Veterinary Hematology , Blackwell Publishing, Page 260
    • This chapter is majorly devoted to the primary immunodeficiencies that have been documented in domestic animals.

    See also

    * sergeant-majorly English degree adverbs