systematics
Americannoun
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the study of systems or of classification.
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Biology.
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the study and classification of organisms with the goal of reconstructing their evolutionary histories and relationships.
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phylogenetic classification.
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noun
Etymology
Origin of systematics
First recorded in 1885–90; see origin at systematic, -ics
Example Sentences
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Professor Hoshino, an expert in plant systematics, founded the Institute of Viticulture and Enology at OUS in April 2017.
From Science Daily • Nov. 3, 2025
Information is used to organize and classify organisms based on evolutionary relationships in a scientific field called systematics.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
In systematics, scientists use combined data based on evolutionary relationships from many sources to put together the phylogeny of an organism.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The science of naming and grouping organisms is called systematics.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018
Foreign systematics are, I observe, much too vague in their specific differences; which are almost universally constituted by one or two particular marks, the rest of the description running in general terms.
From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert
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