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Taxonomic system
noun
A coherent system of taxonomic judgements on circumscription and placement of the considered taxa. A taxonomic system is restricted to a large but limited part of the living world.
Exact(51)
"There's no taxonomic system that could cover the subjects of all these photographs.
Linnaeus designed and developed his taxonomic system by studying and classifying plants.
Additional defining characters are needed to revise the linyphiid taxonomic system based on our phylogenetic hypothesis.
Phylogenetic evidence has led to the inclusion of the former families Hydnoraceae and Lactoridaceae within Aristolochiaceae under the APG IV taxonomic system.
We have not followed this procedure, since most bird species have long since been moved from their original genera as the taxonomic system has been refined.
He translated textbooks and composed "The Loves of the Plants" (1789), which mainly comprises elaborate footnoted verses extolling Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus's taxonomic system.
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Early taxonomic systems had no theoretical basis; organisms were grouped according to apparent similarity.
In most taxonomic systems, domestic chickens, turkeys, quail, and pheasant have been placed in the family Phasianidae.
Gooseberry, fruit bush of the Northern Hemisphere, frequently placed in the genus Ribes, along with the currant, in the family Grossulariaceae; some taxonomic systems assign exclusively to the gooseberry the generic name Grossularia.
Soil taxonomic systems can be validly applied with fixed depth maxima as long as full-context genetic interpretations are made prior to and independently of the classification.
It has been allied in some taxonomic systems to turacos and cuckoos; however, early 21st-century DNA studies clearly refute the proposed cuckoo relationship, though they do not offer a strong alternative.
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