scientific classification
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Nakai spent time studying the Dudleya genus, succulents native to the West Coast, and contributed to its taxonomy, or scientific classification.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2025
In a career spanning almost 60 years, Janaki studied a wide range of flowering plants and reworked the scientific classification of several families of plants.
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2022
“Our weather warning systems were designed to detect and warn for singular threats — they’re biased toward a more siloed and scientific classification of threats,” Henderson wrote in an email.
From Washington Post • May 4, 2022
W. John Koolage, a professor of philosophy at Eastern Michigan University, is writing an introduction that explores the positioning of humans and animals in scientific classification systems.
From Scientific American • Feb. 21, 2020
When I know the folk-names of flowers I always speak thus of them—and to them; but I am grateful too for the scientific classification and naming, as a means of accurate distinction.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse
