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Alternative forms[edit]   alpha taxonomy (uncountable)    1. The
science of finding, describing, classifying and naming living
things.  Usage notes[edit]    • a retronym, this is used in
those cases where the word taxonomy may be ambiguous:     where
the word taxonomy is (also) used in the sense of a
classification in a hierarchical system.     where the word
systematics is used in the sense of cladistically evaluating
DNA-data only.