What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Taxonomy vs Vuggy - What's the difference?

taxonomy | vuggy |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As an adjective vuggy is

(geology) containing vugs.

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

    vuggy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (geology) Containing vugs.
  • * 1962 , Thomas A. Steven, James C. Ratté, Geology and Ore Deposits, Summitville District, San Juan Mountains, Colorado (Geological Survey Professional Paper 343), Geological Survey (U.S.) (publisher), page 41,
    • Parts of the resistant veins have been strongly leached and consists(sic) of vuggy , porous quartz ; elsewhere compact quartz has replaced most of the constituents in the original rock.
  • * 1975 , Robin G. C. Bathurst, Carbonate Sediments and Their Diagenesis , page 371,
    • The diachronous layers under the lagoons, when traced seaward, become more and more vuggy , as cement is more patchily developed, and eventually pass into separate lumps (Taylor and Illing, 1969).
  • * 1976 , Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Deep Sea Drilling Project, National Ocean Sediment Coring Program, Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program , Initial Report, page 46,
    • The basalt consists of a dark greenish-gray, aphyric, vesicular to vuggy' altered rock that is diabasic and vesicular near the top, but becomes steadily coarser, more ' vuggy , and trachitic in texture in the lower part of the unit.