Taxonomy Definition

tăk-sŏnə-mē

taxonomies

noun

The classification and naming of organisms in an ordered system that is intended to indicate natural relationships, especially evolutionary relationships.

American Heritage Medicine

The science of classification; laws and principles covering the classifying of objects.

Webster's New World

A system of arranging animals and plants into natural, related groups based on some factor common to each, as structure, embryology, or biochemistry: the basic taxa now in use are, in descending order from most inclusive, domain, kingdom, phylum (in botany, division), class, order, family, genus, and species.

Webster's New World

An ordered arrangement of groups or categories.

A taxonomy of literary genres.

American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Taxonomy

Noun

Singular:

taxonomy

Plural:

taxonomies

Origin of Taxonomy

French taxonomie Greek taxis arrangement taxis -nomie method (from Greek -nomiā –nomy)

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From French taxonomie.

From Wiktionary