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taxonomy | wearish |

As a noun taxonomy

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

As an adjective wearish is

(obsolete) tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid.

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

    wearish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid.
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal) Sickly, wizened, feeble.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
  • *:Who was to weet a wretched wearish elfe, / With hollow eyes and rawbone cheekes forspent […].
  • *, New York Review Books, 2001, p.16:
  • *:Democritus, as he is described by Hippocrates and Laertius, was a little wearish old man, very melancholy by nature, averse from company in his latter days, and much given to solitariness […].

    • Derived terms

    * (l)