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taxonomy | wold |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and wold

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while wold is an unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.

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

    wold

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
  • (obsolete) A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland
  • * Byron
    • And from his further bank Aetolia's wolds espied.
  • * Tennyson
    • The wind that beats the mountain, blows / More softly round the open wold .

    Usage notes

    * Used in many English place-names, always hilly tracts of land. * Wald'' (German) is a cognate, but a false friend because it retains the original meaning of ''forest .

    Derived terms

    * Cotswolds * (Lincolnshire Wolds) * wolder * (Yorkshire Wolds)

    Related terms

    * (l)

    References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989 ----