Taxonomy vs Mooncalf - What's the difference?
taxonomy | mooncalf |
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.
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A poorly-conceived idea or plan.
A dreamer, someone absent-minded or distracted; a fool, simpleton.
* 1902 , , Olympian Nights , ch. 10:
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* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 463:
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and mooncalf
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while mooncalf is .taxonomy
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(wikipedia taxonomy)Noun
(taxonomies)Synonyms
* 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 * ontologymooncalf
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Alternative forms
*moon-calfNoun
(mooncalves)- Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How cam'st thou / to be the siege of this moon-calf ? Can he vent Trinculos?
- "[Y]ou're a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a blockheaded numps, a gaby and a loon; you're a Hatter !" I shrieked the last epithet.
- But I can think of no one but a mooncalf or a gaby
- Who would trust their own child to raise a baby.
- He slipped it softly onto her unresisting finger and, like the unwise moncalf he was, kissed it.