taxonomía

Definitions of taxonomía
  1. noun
    practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships
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    type of:
    categorización, clasificación
    the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
  2. noun
    (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification
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    type of:
    sistemática
    the science of systematic classification
  3. noun
    a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc
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    type of:
    jerarquía
    a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system
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