Swordfish vs. Taxonomy

Swordfishnoun

A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius.

Swordfishverb

To fish for swordfish.

Swordfishnoun

A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidæ. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long.

Swordfishnoun

A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1.

Swordfishnoun

flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks

Swordfishnoun

large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night

Swordfish

Swordfish (Xiphias gladius), also known as broadbills in some countries, are large, highly migratory, predatory fish characterized by a long, flat, pointed bill. They are a popular sport fish of the billfish category, though elusive.

Taxonomynoun

The science or the technique used to make a classification.

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