Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The classification, arrangement, or coördination of living organisms, according to the sum of their morphological characters; a biological system; taxonomy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Biol.) The classification of living organisms according to their structural character; taxonomy.

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  • noun biology, dated The classification of living organisms according to their structural character; taxonomy.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek life + arrangement.

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