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taxonomy(dictionary)
chemical taxonomy(medicine)
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succinea (iou) and Taxonomy (medicine)


succinea (iou)



succinea noun. , -eas. M19.
[mod. Latin (see below), from fem. of succineus, from succinum amber.]
Zoology. Any gastropod mollusc of the genus Succinea, having a transparent amber-coloured spiral shell. Chiefly as mod. Latin genus name.

Taxonomy (medicine)


taxonomy
<zoology> The theories and techniques of naming, describing, and classifying organisms, the study of the Relationships of taxa,including positional changes which do not involve changes in the names of taxa.

The taxonomic hierarchy is, from top to bottom: kingdom, phylum (for animals) or division (for plants and fungi), class, order, family, genus, species.