taxinomy
(tækˈsɪnəmɪ)
a more etymological form of taxonomy. So taxiˈnomic a. = taxonomic; taˈxinomist = taxonomist.
| 1865 Bendyshe tr. Blumenbach's Anthropol. Treat. Pref. 11 Truths whose importance no one can dispute in anthropological taxinomy. 1866 Reader 15 Dec. 1066 Those sciences of life which modern teaching has, with inexact taxinomy, and worse Greek, termed Biology. 1899 Nature 21 Sept. 489/2 The position that all taxinomy (which form he prefers, on etymological grounds, to the more usual ‘taxonomy’) must conform to logical requirements. Ibid., Labours of scientific taxinomists. Ibid. 490/1 All who engage in taxinomic work. |