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Word Meanings - TAXONOMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants; the laws or principles of classification.

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  • NATURALIST
    1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
  • NATURAL STEEL
    Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
  • DIVISIONARY
    Divisional.
  • DIVISIONALLY
    So as to be divisional.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • NATURAL
    Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info)
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • NATURALNESS
    The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.
  • CLASSIFICATION
    The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities. Artificial classification. See under Artifitial.
  • DIVISIONAL
    That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
  • NATURALISM
    The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting
  • NATURALLY
    In a natural manner or way; according to the usual course of things; spontaneously.
  • DIVISIONOR
    One who divides or makes division. Sheldon.
  • NATURALIZE
    1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of
  • DIVISION
    The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed. (more info) 1. The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state
  • NATURALISTIC
    1. Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism. 2. Closely resembling nature; realistic. "Naturalistic bit of pantomime." W. D. Howells.
  • NATURALIZATION
    The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized.
  • NATURALITY
    Nature; naturalness.
  • SUPERNATURALNESS
    The quality or state of being supernatural.
  • PRETERNATURALITY
    Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
  • MISDIVISION
    Wrong division.
  • SUPERNATURAL
    Being beyond, or exceeding, the power or laws of nature; miraculous. Syn. -- Preternatural. -- Supernatural, Preternatural. Preternatural signifies beside nature, and supernatural, above or beyond nature. What is very greatly aside from the ordinary
  • SUPERNATURALISM
    The doctrine of a divine and supernatural agency in the production of the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in the grace which renews and sanctifies men, -- in opposition to the doctrine which denies the agency of any other than
  • PRETERNATURALISM
    The state of being preternatural; a preternatural condition.
  • CONNATURALITY
    Participation of the same nature; natural union or connection. A congruity and connaturality between them. Sir M. Hale.
  • SUPRANATURALISM
    The state of being supernatural; belief in supernatural agency or revelation; supernaturalism.
  • CONNATURAL
    1. Connected by nature; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural. These affections are connatural to us. L'Estrange. 2. Partaking of the same nature. And mix with our connatural dust. Milton.
  • NONNATURAL
    Not natural; unnatural.
  • COUNTERNATURAL
    Contrary to nature. Harvey.

 

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