Falstaff vs. Taxonomy

Falstaff

Sir John Falstaff, a celebrated character in Shakespeare's historical play " Henry IV." (1st and 2d parts), and also in " The Merry Wives of Windsor." He is a very fat, sensual, and witty old knight; a swindler, drunkard, and good-tempered liar; and something of a coward. Falstaff was originally called Sir John Oldcastle. The first actor of the part was John Heminge.

Taxonomynoun

The science or the technique used to make a classification.

Falstaffnoun

a dissolute character in Shakespeare's plays

Taxonomynoun

A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.

Taxonomynoun

The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Taxonomynoun

That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants, primarily by consideration of their natural relationships with respect to their structure or genetic origin; the laws or principles of classification; systematics.

Taxonomynoun

A systematic arrangement of objects or concepts showing the relations between them, especially one including a hierarchical arrangement of types in which categories of objects are classified as subtypes of more abstract categories, starting from one or a small number of top categories, and descending to more specific types through an arbitrary number of levels. An ontology usually contains a taxonomy as one of the important principles of organization.

Taxonomynoun

a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc

Taxonomynoun

(biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification

Taxonomynoun

practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships