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Plural of taxonomy

regular plural

The plural of taxonomy is taxonomies.

Forms of taxonomy

Singulartaxonomy /tækˈsɒnəmi/
Pluraltaxonomies
Countablecountable and uncountable

Taxonomies in a sentence

  • For all of the taxonomies studied, there was a level of abstraction at which all of these factors co-occurred.From the entry co-occur
  • Folk-taxonomies often are at variance with scientific taxonomies, even in cultures that have cultivated the scientific analysis of plants, animals, colors, and other taxonomized phenomena.2003, Earl R. Anderson, Folk-taxonomies in Early English, page 24. From the entry scientific taxonomy

Meaning of taxonomy

  1. noun The science, technique, or process used to make a classification.
  2. noun A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
  3. noun The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Full definition of taxonomy

Questions about the plural of taxonomy

What is the plural of taxonomy?
The plural of taxonomy is taxonomies.
Is taxonomy countable?
Taxonomy is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: taxonomy (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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