Taxonomy vs Scragginess - What's the difference?
taxonomy | scragginess |
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.
Roughness; irregularity; jaggedness.
* 2004 , Norman R. Beaupré, Marginal Enemies , ISBN 9781595261427,
Leanness or thinness, especially as tending toward haggardness; scrawniness.
* 1900 , , "A Wrong Altar" in Cupid's Garden .
* 1922 , , Man and Maid , ch. 21:
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and scragginess
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while scragginess is roughness; irregularity; jaggedness.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 * ontologyscragginess
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- He wore the scragginess of an unshaven face like a lost man in pursuit of some safe harbor.
- [I]f Marian's girlish slimness showed faint, prophetic signs of degenerating into scragginess , George was still far too deeply in love to heed such evil and irreverent prophecies.
- There is not the least look of scragginess about her, just extreme slenderness, a small-boned creature of perhaps five foot four or five.