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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

taxonomía

Pronunciation / Transliteration: taxonomía

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Taxonomy/tækˈsɒn.ə.mi/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #4500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La taxonomía moderna se basa en gran medidaใน análisis genéticos."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms; systematics.

    "The taxonomy of beetles is complex and constantly evolving."
  2. 2

    A scheme of classification.

    "The library uses a detailed taxonomy to organize its digital assets."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Greek words 'taxis' meaning arrangement or division, and 'nomos' meaning law or method. Coined in the 19th century by French botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, the term originally referred to the classification of plants before expanding to encompass the general science of classification across all biological and informational domains.

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