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scientific classification

NOUN
scheme for ordering things
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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

While therefore the division into heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual is a useful superficial division, it is scarcely a scientific classification.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Ellis, Havelock



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