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taxonomy | stockish |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As an adjective stockish is

(obsolete) like a stock; stupid; blockish.

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

    stockish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Like a stock; stupid; blockish.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Since naught so stockish , hard, and full of rage, / But music for the time doth change his nature.
  • *1881 , :
    • Many who have "plied their book diligently," and know all about some one branch or another of accepted lore, come out of the study with an ancient and owl-like demeanour, and prove dry, stockish , and dyspeptic in all the better and brighter parts of life.
    (Webster 1913)