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taxonomy | stoutish |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As an adjective stoutish is

reasonably stout, somewhat stout.

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

    stoutish

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • reasonably stout, somewhat stout
  • *{{quote-book, year=1912, author=Margaret Burnham, title=The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Descending to the office to buy some postcards, the boys found, lounging about the desk, a stoutish man with a rather dissipated face, puffy under the eyes and heavy about the jaws. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1911, author=H. G. Wells, title=The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seaweed and things, and made a stoutish string, perhaps twelve yards in length or more, and I fastened two lumps of coral rock to the ends of this. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1883, author=, title=Treasure Island, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=In the meantime the captain, whom I had observed to be wonderfully swollen about the chest and pockets, had turned out a great many various stores--the British colours, a Bible, a coil of stoutish rope, pen, ink, the log-book, and pounds of tobacco. }}