Taxonomy vs Pulchritudinous - What's the difference?
taxonomy | pulchritudinous |
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.
(literary) Having great physical beauty.
* 1994, , The Ships of Earth [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0812532635&id=7gfXxsbBlMUC&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=pulchritudinous&sig=0rRZFt_qlJjfSJjGn3wFt2fS2d4]:
* 1966, , The Moon is a Harsh Mistress [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0312863551&id=BekUbUYszIEC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=pulchritudinous&sig=ZvuCF54ZL1_TGu3t7yhCfG16Vac]:
* 1998, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in a Flamingo Fedora [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0812565355&id=lU8wPXJ3OiMC&pg=PA268&lpg=PA268&dq=pulchritudinous&sig=BBtkRVAYY69odrH7zFc7qi0qwus]:
As a noun taxonomy
is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As an adjective pulchritudinous is
(literary) having great physical beauty.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 * ontologypulchritudinous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- But Shedemei had long since grown out of her adolescent jealousy of pulchritudinous girls.
- “The first example in each series,” Mike offered, “would be, on the basis of my associational analyses of such data, of such pulchritudinous value as to please any healthy, mature human male.”
- “I had standing instructions to let any pulchritudinous females into Mr. Cooke’s dressing room,” Mike admitted.
- “Pulchritudinous ? He really said that?”
- “No, I said that.”
