See Also: Taxonomy(medicine)
taxonomy(dictionary)
taxonomy(encyclopedia)
taxonomy(dictionary)
chemical taxonomy(medicine)
numerical taxonomy(medicine)

sliddery (iou) and taxonomy (sh)


sliddery (iou)



sliddery adjective. Now Scot. & dial. ME.
[from SLIDDER verb + -Y1. Cf. SLITHERY.]
Slippery; on which one may readily slip. ME.
b. fig. Uncertain, unstable, changeable. LME.
Of a smooth or slippery Nature; fig. sly, treacherous. ME.
Inclined or prone to slip. rare. LME.

taxonomy (sh)




In biology, the classification of organisms into a hierarchy of groupings, from the General to the particular, that reflect evolutionary and usually morphological Relationships: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.

The black-capped chickadee, for example, is an animal (kingdom Animalia) with a dorsal nerve cord (phylum Chordata) and feathers (class Aves: birds) that perches (order Passeriformes: perching birds) and is small with a short bill (family Paridae), a song that sounds like "chik-a-dee" (genus Parus), and a black-capped head (species atricapillus). Most authorities recognize five kingdoms: monerans (prokaryotes), protists, fungi (see fungus), plants, and animals. Carolus Linnaeus established the scheme of using Latin generic and specific names in the mid-18th century; his work was extensively revised by later biologists.