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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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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.
His 170 publications dealt mainly with the taxonomy, zoogeography, and evolution of birds, but also with territory theory and brood parasitism.
In the Linnaean taxonomy, everything is, to begin with, a member of a kingdom.
Chromosomes are often useful in systematics and taxonomy, but are of restricted taxonomic value in Periplocoideae.
Thus, the presence or absence of an apertural slit does not necessarily have significance for high-level taxonomy.

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