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taxonomy | transmigratory |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As an adjective transmigratory is

of, pertaining to, or undergoing transmigration, as a soul from one body to another.

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

    transmigratory

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, pertaining to, or undergoing transmigration, as a soul from one body to another.
  • * 1850 , , Representative Men , "Chapter 4 - Swedenborg; or, the Mystic":
  • I think of him as of some transmigratory votary of Indian legend, who says, "Though I be dog, or jackal, or pismire, in the last rudiments of nature, under what integument or ferocity, I cleave to right, as the sure ladder that leads up to man and to God."
  • * 1866 , B. W. Ball, " A Ramble through the Market," The Atlantic , 1 March (retrieved 30 Sep 2010):
  • To the Brahmin, the lower animal kingdom is a vast masquerade of transmigratory souls.
  • * 1887 , , Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin , ch. 6:
  • [W]e probably called others bad only so far as we were wrapped in ourselves and lacking in the transmigratory forces of imagination.
  • Of, pertaining to, or undergoing transmigration, as between places.
  • * 1998 , Geraldine Albela " Two-phase tourism promotion in Perak," New Straits Times , 14 Oct., p. 16 (retrieved 30 Sep 2010):
  • [T]he Kuala Gula Bird Sanctuary offers a hideaway to see some of the transmigratory birds that regular flock to the area.
  • * 2008 , R. Balakrishnan et al.'', "Trends in Overweight and Obesity Among 5 - 7-year-old White and South Asian Children Born Between 1991 and 1999," ''Journal of Public Health , vol. 30, no. 2:
  • Changes in the diet of a South Asian transmigratory population may be associated with an increase in incidence of childhood diabetes.