taxonomic
Americanadjective
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To reach their conclusions, the team examined the taxonomic records of roughly 2 million species from across all major forms of life.
From Science Daily • Dec. 24, 2025
In reality, the factors leading to extinction are far from uniform across time, habitats, or taxonomic groups.
From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2025
And that’s coming from someone who studies birds, which are really well studied overall compared to some other taxonomic groups.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2025
“Advancements in coral taxonomy using DNA has led to the discovery of new species of coral and better taxonomic definition,” Alliji said.
From Salon • Nov. 21, 2024
The real blow came twelve years later, when, as a consequence of a radical taxonomic reshuffle, lepidopterists decided that Pappachi’s moth was in fact a separate species and genus hitherto unknown to science.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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