| 单词 | artificial system | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasartificial system   artificial system  n. Biology and Taxonomy a system of classification designed primarily for pragmatic reasons rather than correspondence to natural affinities or essential characteristics (see sense  A. 5). ΚΠ 1761Artificial system [see sense  A. 5].							 1790    R. Pulteney Hist. & Biogr. Sketches Progress Bot. in Eng. I. 320  				Some have imagined, that the more pure any artificial system preserves the natural classes, the greater is its excellence; but experience does not confirm this idea. 1874    Amer. Naturalist 8 386  				The faults found with this artificial system were neither few nor vaguely expressed. 1979    Systematic Zool. 28 16/2  				To declare that artificial systems are futile (that they fail to resolve a single natural family), Adanson previously had to decide what the natural families are. < as lemmas  | 
	
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