Taxonomy vs Whelpling - What's the difference?
taxonomy | whelpling |
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.
A little whelp.
*1907 , Frederic William Farrar, Lives of the Fathers :
*2011 , Ani Johnson, Half-Breed :
*2011 , Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence :
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and whelpling
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while whelpling is a little whelp.taxonomy
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(wikipedia taxonomy)Noun
(taxonomies)Synonyms
* alpha taxonomyDerived terms
* folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomySee 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 * ontologywhelpling
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Noun
(en noun)- "[...] For that whelpling Diogenes sought to find a man, carrying round his lamp at midday; but Marcion, having quenched the light of faith, has lost the God whom he had found."
- "Yes, I did," Evia replied, and then licked the top of the whelpling's head.
- [...] to share space with his dog, whom the attendant explained he'd rescued from the road and taken in, likely, according to the corny script I'd begun playing in, so I'd understand I was truly a stray, a whelpling , a pup.