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taxonomy | ruinate |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As a verb ruinate is

to reduce to ruins; to destroy.

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

    ruinate

    English

    Verb

    (ruinat)
  • To reduce to ruins; to destroy.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.viii:
  • Towres, Cities, Kingdomes ye would ruinate , / In your auengement and dispiteous rage […].
  • *, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.51:
  • as in lust, [animals] covet carnal copulation at set times, men always, ruinating thereby the health of their bodies.
  • To fall; to tumble.
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