taxonomicadj.
/ˌtaksəˈnɒmɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌtæksəˈnɑmɪk/ 1. Of or relating to taxonomy or classification, classificatory; spec. relating to the systematic classification of living organisms.
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the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [adjective]
taxonomic1842
taxonomical1856
taxinomic1899
1842 London Jrnl. Bot. 1 597 The dehiscence, form, opacity, or transparency of the exine, and simplicity or compound structure of the pollen, are the characters of this organ of greatest taxonomic importance.
1890 Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1888 244 A general taxonomic system similar to but more refined than those current in objective geology for a generation.
1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 820 The taxonomic position of the Palamedeidæ..has been much debated.
1935 P. S. Welch Limnol. x. 262 These indigenous aquatic bacteria do not constitute a single taxonomic unit.
1953 Jrnl. Business Univ. Chicago 26 200/1 In Part II on business policies, he uses the taxonomic approach.
1975 Blumea 22 420 The precise configuration of antherodes and pistillodes in relation to other floral parts is likely to prove of considerable taxonomic value.
1986 A. Danto Encounters & Refl. (1991) 50 If we use Van Gogh and Rubens as taxonomic markers, the few artists who volunteer for inclusion in the latter's class must resist considerable peer pressure.
2009 C. R. C. Sheppard et al. Biol. Coral Reefs ii. 61 Mangroves are a diverse group of halophytic trees and shrubs with little taxonomic relation to each other.
2. Linguistics. Involving or concerned with the identification and classification of the units into which languages are analysed. Cf. structuralist adj. 1.
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the mind > language > linguistics > [adjective] > specific types or features of linguistic analysis
paradigmatic1891
realizational1904
non-distinctive1916
principled1919
binary1921
over-differentiated1927
marked1933
unmarked1933
isomorphic1937
nuclear1937
contrastive1940
metalinguistic1941
metalingual1942
componential1947
linear1955
rewrite1960
unordered1960
taxonomic1962
non-binary1971
1962 N. Chomsky in Internat. Preprints Papers 9th Internat. Congr. of Linguists 556 In the case of perception of language,..the step-by-step analytic models of taxonomic linguistics are not in the least convincing.
1976 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 21 128 FBG present excellent discussions of taxonomic structural linguistics, how it is done, what it discovered about language (observing that many of the facts about language structure that taxonomic grammarians set out to capture are real), and the psycholinguistics of taxonomic grammar.
2011 J. Albrecht in B. Kortmann & J. van der Auwera Langs. & Linguistics Europe xlvii. 839 Chomsky's polemic against the predominantly ‘taxonomic’ approach of structuralist linguists using so-called discovery procedures..was directed against American Structuralism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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