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alpha_taxonomy

alpha taxonomy

See also: alpha-taxonomy

English

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Noun

alpha taxonomy (uncountable)

  1. The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming living things.

Usage notes

  • a retronym, this is used in those cases where the word taxonomy may be ambiguous:
    where the word taxonomy is (also) used in the sense of a classification in a hierarchical system.
    where the word systematics is used in the sense of cladistically evaluating DNA-data only.