Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun taxonomy

3 senses of taxonomy

Sense 1
taxonomy -- (a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc)
       => hierarchy -- (a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system; "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values")

Sense 2
taxonomy -- ((biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification)
       => systematics -- (the science of systematic classification)

Sense 3
taxonomy -- (practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships)
       => categorization, categorisation, classification, compartmentalization, compartmentalisation, assortment -- (the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type)