MEANING
Relating to the organized classification of things into categories.
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- taxonomic distinction
- taxonomic scheme
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The paper challenged the taxonomic distinction between the groups.
A taxonomic scheme organized the collected samples.
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Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a relation or classification; comparisons require a meaningful context. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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