taxonomic (taksonomik)

[ If... the student will attend to the facts which constitute the subject-matter of cla ifications, rather than to the modes of generalizing them which are expre ed in taxonomic systems, he will find that, however divergent these systems may be, they have a great deal in common. Huxley , Anat. Invert., p. 561. taxonomical (tak-sō-nom'i-kal), a. [ taxonomically (tak-sō-nom'i-kal-i), adv. As regards taxonomy, or systematic cla ification. Science, XXIV. 147. taxonomist (tak-son'ō-mist), n. [ Our knowledge of the anatomy, and especially of the development, of the Invertebrata is increasing with such prodigious rapidity that the views of Taxonomists in regard to the proper manner of expre ing that knowledge by cla ification are undergoing, and for some time to come are likely to undergo, ince ant modifications. Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 561. T-bandage