taxonomic
part of speech
adjective (taxonomic; more taxonomic is not used)
meaning for a pupil
1) Taxonomic means to do with sorting living things into named groups, such as kingdom, family, genus and species. tree →
2) More broadly, it means to do with any careful system of naming and grouping things. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science it comes up when pupils learn how living things are classified: a taxonomic group, a taxonomic key, taxonomic rank. It tells the reader that things are being sorted into groups by shared features. Phrases: taxonomic group, taxonomic key, taxonomic name, taxonomic rank.
examples
- Lions and tigers are in the same taxonomic family, the cat family. tree →
- Our class made a taxonomic key to sort the minibeasts we found. tree →
- Species is the smallest main taxonomic rank. tree →
- Scientists argued about the taxonomic place of the giant panda for years. tree →
- A taxonomic name is usually written in Latin, like Homo sapiens. tree →
- The museum labels show each fossil's taxonomic group. tree →
- The library uses a kind of taxonomic system to sort books by subject. tree →
note
Formal science word; adjective only. Related: taxonomy (the system or science of classifying), taxonomist (a scientist who classifies). Stress: tax-o-NOM-ic. Do not confuse with taxidermy (stuffing dead animals) or taxes (money paid to the government).
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «taxonomic» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.