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taxonomy | vughy |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As an adjective vughy is

containing vughs, vuggy.

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

    vughy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Containing vughs, vuggy.
  • * 1929 , New Zealand. Parliament, House of Representatives, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand , Volume 2, page 20,
    • Owing to soft slidy country rock at the beginning, and hard vughy quartz in the reef, very great difficulty was experienced in putting down this hole.
  • * 1990 , Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea , Volume 2, page 996,
    • On Mount Gee, the 20 to 50 m thick, dense to highly vughy sequence is characterised by discontinuous, irregular, banded to rhythmically layered quartz, specular hematite and siliceous reddish brown hematitic 'siltstone'.
  • * 2002 , W. R. Dearman, J. R. Coffey, An engineering zoning map of the Permian limestones of NE England'', in James S. Griffiths (editor), ''Mapping in Engineering Geology , page 201,
    • Fig. 4. Autobrecciated and vughy' limestones from the north-west wall of Houghton Cutting (355507) on the A690 trunk road; (a) typical ' vughy autobrecciated limestone; (b) localized development of autobrecciation in bedded limestone.