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Taxonomy vs Vixen - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and vixen

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while vixen is a female fox.

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

    vixen

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A female fox.
  • A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
  • * 1859: , . Adam Bede : page 54. Köln: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1999:
  • . . . and if Solomon was as wise as he is reputed to be, I feel sure that when he compared a contentious woman to a contiunal dropping on a very rainy day, he had not a vixen in his eye–a fury with long nails, acrid and selfish.
  • (colloquial) A racy or salacious woman.
  • Synonyms

    * (female fox) female fox * bitch, virago, she-devil, hellcat * (racy or salacious woman) fox, sex kitten, nymphomaniac, vamp

    Hypernyms

    * (female fox) fox