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Taxonomy vs Southwardly - What's the difference?

taxonomy | southwardly |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As an adverb southwardly is

southwards, towards the south.

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

    southwardly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • southwards, towards the south
  • * {{quote-book, year=1850, author=William Cullen Bryant, title=Letters of a Traveller, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=As we proceeded southwardly , the temperature grew milder, and the day closed with a calm and pleasant sunset. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1916, author=H. G. Wells, title=What is Coming?, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The Scandinavian peoples have developed a tendency to an extra-European outlook, to look west and east rather than southwardly , to be pacifist and progressive in a manner essentially American. }}
  • * {{quote-journal, 2000, date=June 16, John G. Lyon, The Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System, Science citation
    • , passage=Dungey (7 ) first sketched the consequences for an interplanetary (solar wind) magnetic field (IMF) that was oppositely directed (southwardly ) from the generally northward terrestrial field. }}