As nouns the difference between taxonomy and perambulation
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while perambulation is (rare) a survey, a tour; a walking around.
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
perambulation
Noun
(s)
(rare) A survey, a tour; a walking around.
(legal) An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
Quotations
*1902 : Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society , published by the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society
*:Another forest not named in the perambulation is that of .
*1929 : Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society , published by the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society
*:The earliest known reference to the stone is that in the perambulation of the parish of recorded in the Cartulary of Christchurch Priory .
Synonyms
* (English legal ceremony ) bannering
References
*Radin Law Dictionary , Max Radin; Oceana Publications, 1970.
