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Taxonomy vs Prostrate - What's the difference?

taxonomy | prostrate |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As an adjective prostrate is

lying flat, facedown.

As a verb prostrate is

(senseid)(often reflexive) to lie flat or facedown.

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

    prostrate

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Lying flat, facedown.
  • * Milton
  • Prostrate fall / Before him reverent, and there confess / Humbly our faults.
  • * 1945 , :
  • Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.
  • Emotionally devastated.
  • I told him you was prostrate with grief.'' — Mammy to Scarlett, ''Gone With the Wind .
  • Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
  • He was prostrate from the extreme heat.
  • (botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
  • Antonyms

    * supine

    Verb

    (prostrat)
  • (senseid)(Often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown.
  • To throw oneself down in submission (also figuratively).
  • To cause to lie down, to flatten; (figuratively) to overcome or overpower.
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  • Usage notes

    * Prostrate and (prostate) are often confused, in spelling if not in meaning.

    See also

    * kowtow ----