Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pseudotaxonomic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pseu-do-tax-o-nom-ic
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

6

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Falsely or artificially taxonomic.

Example Sentences

"However, prey are usually assigned to broad taxonomic or pseudotaxonomic categories, which may not allow the subtleties of predator impacts to be interpreted."
"Similarly, Crisp & Weston (1993) found patterns of paedomorphosis in Telopea speciosissima to produce artifactual, 'pseudotaxonomic' patterns."
"In the absence of a sexual structure, however, these organisms remain in the fungi imperfecti (Deuteromycota)—a pseudotaxonomic repository for organisms with no known sexual state."

Etymology

From pseudo- + taxonomic or pseudotaxonomy + -ic.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pseudo
Suffix: pseudotaxonomy

Inflected Forms

more pseudotaxonomic (comparative) most pseudotaxonomic (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

pseudotaxonomy

Questions

What does pseudotaxonomic mean?: Falsely or artificially taxonomic.
Where does pseudotaxonomic come from?: From pseudo- + taxonomic or pseudotaxonomy + -ic.

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