Taxonomy vs Stellify - What's the difference?
taxonomy | stellify |
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.
(mythology) To transform from an earthly body into a celestial body; to place in the sky as such
:''In Classical mythology, being stellified was about the greatest posthumous honor for a mortal.
* 1983 , Douglas Brooks-Davies, The Mercurian Monarch: magical politics from Spenser to Pope , page 31
(astronomy) To turn into a star.
* 1989', ''Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact'', ' 109 : 75
As a noun taxonomy
is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As a verb stellify is
(mythology) to transform from an earthly body into a celestial body; to place in the sky as such.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 * ontologystellify
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- By the 'hissing snake' Spenser presumably means the scorpion sent by Diana that killed Orion. Like Orion it, too, was stellified . But since, as Scorpio, it rises in the east as Orion's sign sets in the west, the two were regarded as being kept forever apart, Orion perpetually avoiding in the heavens his vanquisher on earth.
- An alternative way to stellify the planet may be to not collapse Jupiter, but instead to introduce a collapsed object into its core .
