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What does taxonomy mean?

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Noun
  1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
  3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
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He makes few assumptions about higher-level lizard taxonomy and includes geckos, skinks and agamids among his ingroup taxa.
His 170 publications dealt mainly with the taxonomy, zoogeography, and evolution of birds, but also with territory theory and brood parasitism.
Additionally, I am addressing the highly neglected taxonomy of many of the marine meiofaunal groups.
Notably absent from this conventional taxonomy, however, is kinesthesia, our sensory awareness of the position and movement of the body.
Thus, the presence or absence of an apertural slit does not necessarily have significance for high-level taxonomy.
The success of flow cytometry and its ever-increasing use in plant taxonomy, systematics and ecology may pose unexpected problems.

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