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分类学 — meaning in English

fēn lèi xué

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English meaning

  • taxonomy noun A system for sorting things into named groups and levels, so that related items sit together and each has a defined place.

Senses

分类学 is used for these senses in English:

  • taxonomy (life sciences, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

taxonomy — full definition

  1. noun A system for sorting things into named groups and levels, so that related items sit together and each has a defined place.
  2. noun The branch of biology concerned with naming organisms and arranging them into ranked groups such as kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species.