Taxonomy vs Urchin - What's the difference?
taxonomy | urchin |
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 mischievous child.
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A street kid, a child from a poor neighborhood.
* W. Howitt
(archaic) A hedgehog.
* before 1400 ,
A sea urchin.
A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
* Shakespeare
One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders arranged around a carding drum; so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and urchin
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while urchin is a mischievous child.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 * ontologyurchin
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Noun
(en noun)- And like these fresh green things were the dozens of babies, tots, toddlers, noisy urchins , laughing girls, a whole multitude of children of one family. For Collier Brandt, the father of all this numerous progeny, was a Mormon with four wives.
- And the urchins that stand with their thievish eyes / Forever on watch ran off each with a prize.
- We'll dress [them] like urchins , ouphes, and fairies.
- (Knight)