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Taxonomy vs Scatology - What's the difference?

taxonomy | scatology |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and scatology

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while scatology is the scientific study, or the chemical analysis of faeces.

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

    scatology

    English

    Noun

    (scatologies)
  • The scientific study, or the chemical analysis of faeces.
  • A filthy epithet.
  • * 2008 , Daniel Bernardi, The Persistence of Whiteness
    • ...lingo of the streets with its spewed out scatologies and its anti-womanist rhetoric of "hoes and bitches" — all so evocative of life in the ghetto...

    Synonyms

    * scatologia

    Derived terms

    * scatological

    Related terms

    * scatolia * scatophilia

    See also

    * coprophilia