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.
Related words: (words related to TAXONOMY)
- 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.