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taxonomy | pongy |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As an adjective pongy is

(uk|australia|nz|informal) having a bad smell.

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

    pongy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (UK, Australia, NZ, informal) Having a bad smell.
  • * 2001 , Ken Campbell, Home'', in John O?Connor, ''Scripts and Sketches , Heinemann Educational, UK, page 79,
    • Look, they?ve even put a pair of old pongy' socks exactly like mine in the corner by the door, exactly like I bunged them last Sunday. Mind you, they are a bit '''pongier''' than I remembered. But mind you, they would get ' pongier over the week.
  • * 2005 , James Duncan, Sweets That Eat Children! , page 2,
    • Moments later, a small, sobbing figure would emerge—dirty as a rat and smelling pongier than the rottenest egg.
  • * 2010 , Lonely Planet staff, The Europe Book: A Journey Through Every Country on the Continent , page 57,
    • In France, Époisses is known as the pongiest of its 500-odd cheeses; in the UK 19 humans and an electronic nose voted Vieux-Boulogne the world's smelliest cheese.