Underbred vs Taxonomy - What's the difference?
underbred | taxonomy |
(chiefly, horses) of inferior breeding
* {{quote-book, 1902, title=Cross country with horse and hound, author=Frank Sherman Peer
, passage=I prefer both sire and dam to be well-bred, but a well-bred mare and an underbred horse will produce a faster animal than a thoroughbred horse and an underbred mare.}}
lacking in manners or finesse
* {{quote-book, 1923, title=
, passage=Himself, he felt the most underbred of all; he was afraid of these Utopians: snobbish and abject before them, he was like a mannerless earthy lout in a drawing-room, and he was bitterly ashamed of his own abjection.}}
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.
