Definition of taxonomic in English:
taxonomic
(also taxonomical)
adjective -səˈnɒmɪk(ə)ltaksəˈnɒmɪk
Biology Concerned with the classification of things, especially organisms.
the taxonomic diversity of bees
extensive taxonomic sampling
Example sentencesExamples
- By passing through the indexing process, the document is consistently aligned against a taxonomic standard.
- We are developing our own taxonomic descriptions for those species.
- During the most recent mass extinction, 65 million years ago, 17 per cent of all the taxonomic families of life were lost, including the dinosaurs.
- Desert bighorn sheep is not a real taxonomic category; it includes four subspecies of bighorn sheep that live in desert regions.
- Genetic engineering has introduced a novel ability to move genes across very different taxonomic groups and accelerated the rate of evolutionary change.
Derivatives
adverb taksəˈnɒmɪk(ə)li
Biology Though they are minor elements of most Cambrian benthic assemblages, rhynchonelliform brachiopods taxonomically and numerically dominate most post-Ordovician Paleozoic benthic assemblages.
Example sentencesExamples
- In this example, the resultant morphologies are taxonomically confusing and correct interpretation is impossible without considering taphonomic modifications of original hard-part morphology.
- To call the actually existing order liberal - or ‘neo-liberal’ - is as taxonomically accurate as calling the old Soviet Communist Party syndicalist.
- Orangutans are taxonomically classified as two distinct subspecies, the Bornean (Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus) and the Sumatran (Pongo pygmaeus abelli).
- A subspecies is a geographic race that is sufficiently different taxonomically to be worthy of a separate name.
Rhymes
agronomic, astronomic, atomic, comic, economic, ergonomic, gastronomic, metronomic, palindromic, physiognomic, subatomic, tragicomic