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taxonomy | scrouge |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As a verb scrouge is

(uk|dialect|and|us|colloquial) to crowd; to squeeze.

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

    scrouge

    English

    Verb

    (scroug)
  • (UK, dialect, and, US, colloquial) To crowd; to squeeze.
  • * Walter Blair
    • Well, pretty soon the whole town was there, squirming and scrouging and pushing and shoving to get at the window and have a look
  • * 1983 , Judson R. Landis, Sociology: concepts and characteristics
    • I look for veiled eyes or bodies scrouged into a seat in an alien world.
  • * 2001 , Aileen Kilgore Henderson, Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women's Army Corps, 1944-1945 (page 12)
    • We stayed up till eleven, sitting on the stairs, on the floor, and scrouged into the day room, surrounded by stacks of GI clothes.