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# taxonomic

adjective (taxonomic; more taxonomic is not used)

«taxonomic» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Taxonomic means to do with sorting living things into named groups, such as kingdom, family, genus and species. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taxonomic/#m1)
2. More broadly, it means to do with any careful system of naming and grouping things. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taxonomic/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taxonomic/#x1)
- Our class made a taxonomic key to sort the minibeasts we found. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taxonomic/#x2)
- Species is the smallest main taxonomic rank. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taxonomic/#x3)
- Scientists argued about the taxonomic place of the giant panda for years. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taxonomic/#x4)
- A taxonomic name is usually written in Latin, like Homo sapiens. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taxonomic/#x5)
- The museum labels show each fossil's taxonomic group. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taxonomic/#x6)
- The library uses a kind of taxonomic system to sort books by subject. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taxonomic/#x7)

### 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).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «taxonomic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taxonomic/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«taxonomic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/taxonomic.html) on Mova free.