Taxonomy vs Wittol - What's the difference?
taxonomy | wittol |
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.
(archaic) A man who knows or even condones his wife's enjoyment of coitus with another man or men; a contented cuckold.
*, New York Review of Books 2001, p.67:
* 1885 , Sir (w), , "Night 13"
* 1960 , (John Barth), (w)
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A bird, the wheatear.
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and wittol
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while wittol is a man who knows or even condones his wife's enjoyment of coitus with another man or men; a contented cuckold.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 * ontologywittol
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Noun
(en noun)- To seea wittol wink at his wife's honesty, and too perspicuous in all other affairs […].
- So the Ifrit cried at her, "Thou whorest and makest me a wittol with thine eyes;" and struck her so that her head went flying.
- God help the husband that obliges his wife's least whim: he'll be a wittol ere he's two years wed!