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Underived vs Taxonomy - What's the difference?

underived | taxonomy |

As an adjective underived

is not derived, not related.

As a noun taxonomy is

the science or the technique used to make a classification.

underived

English

Adjective

(-)
  • not derived, not related.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1742, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=If their rights are inherent and underived , they may, by their own suffrages, encircle, with a diadem, the brows of Mr. Cushing. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1859, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 15, January, 1859, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage="Firstly,--if underived virtue be peculiar to the Deity, can it be the duty of a creature to have it?" }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Surendranath Dasgupta, title=A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Thus it is that though contact of the senses with the objects may later on be imagined to be the conditioning factor, yet the rise of knowledge as well as our notion of its validity strikes us as original, underived , immediate, and first-hand. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=December 2, author=Jonathan Rosenbaum, title=The Sound of German, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=He held that everything in existence is composed of four underived and indestructible substances--fire, water, earth, and air--and that atmosphere is a corporeal substance, not a mere void. }}

    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