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Definition for TAX-ON'O-MY
TAX'ING
TEA
TAX-ON'O-MY
, n. [Gr. ταξις, order, and νομος, law.]
That department of natural history which treats of the laws and principles of classification.
The laws or principles themselves of classification.
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