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taxonomy | slobbery |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As an adjective slobbery is

wet and slimy, containing slobber, having the consistency of slobber.

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

    slobbery

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Wet and slimy, containing slobber, having the consistency of slobber.
  • *2007 , Elinor de Wire - '' The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses] [http://books.google.com/books?id=yf2KPvJwN8EC&pg=PR11&dq=%22slobbery+dog%22&sig=tooIiNBfSaVTad3NFdZwX3Pp3Uw page xi
  • *:He placed one paw on my right thigh and planted a slobbery dog kiss on my cheek.
  • *:"Well! Make yourself at home, why don't you?" I joked.
  • Prone to produce an excess of saliva or slobber.
  • *2004 , Susan Johnson - The Broken Book] [http://books.google.com/books?id=GzkawhZmQrEC&pg=RA1-PA25&dq=%22slobbery%22+date:1980-2008&lr=&sig=tsEv_jcYF2BtZXyBVxN-x_MuK_A page 25.
  • *:My own lips are slobbery suckers, the bane of my life, the subject of teasing by Peggy Gordon, who has recently taken to calling me Lubra Lips.