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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and schnozz

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while schnozz is (slang) nose.

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

    schnozz

    English

    Alternative forms

    *schnoz

    Noun

    (es)
  • (slang) nose
  • * {{quote-news
    • , date = 1993-03-05 , first = Adam , last = Langer , authorlink = Adam Langer , title = Sex Lives of Superheroes/Subfertile , newspaper = (The Chicago Reader) , url = https://securesite.chireader.com/cgi-bin/Archive/abridged2.bat?path=1993/930305/SUPER , passage = There's a TV commercial out now for a nasal spray in which a man in need of a decongestant wakes up to find that his entire head has turned into a giant schnozz . }}
  • * {{quote-news
    • , date = 1998-06-26 , first = Cecil , last = Adams , authorlink = Cecil Adams , title = (The Straight Dope) , newspaper = (The Chicago Reader) , url = https://securesite.chireader.com/cgi-bin/Archive/abridged2.bat?path=1998/980626/DOPE , passage = One presumes the anesthetic is for the bull, although if I were about to pound a nail through some bull's schnozz I might want some anesthetic myself. }}
  • *{{quote-journal
    • , date = 1999-11-05 , first = Carl , last = Zimmer , authorlink = Carl Zimmer , title = Society of Vertebrate Paleontology: The Stories Behind the Bones , journal = , issn = 0036-8075 , url = http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/286/5442/1071 , doi = 10.1126/science.286.5442.1071 , volume = 286 , issue = 5442 , pages = 1071-1074 , passage = In another talk, a DinoNose collaborator, Scott Sampson of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, pointed out a number of ridges in the ceratopsian schnozz that probably supported curtains of cartilage; these in turn may have served as scaffolding for layers upon layers of mucous membranes. }}