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(Encyclopedia) genera, in taxonomy: see classification. ...

(Encyclopedia) genus, in taxonomy: see classification. ...

(Encyclopedia) family, in taxonomy: see classification. ...

(Encyclopedia) Hamitic languages, subfamily of the Hamito-Semitic family of languages, a now-abandoned system of classification for languages of N Africa and SW Asia. The Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, and (sometimes) ...

(Encyclopedia) taxon (pl. taxa), in biology, a term used to denote any group or rank in the classification of organisms, e.g., class, order, family. ...

(Encyclopedia) Fries, Elias Magnus ĕlēˈäs mängˈnəs frēs [key], 1794–1878, Swedish botanist. He taught (1834–59) at the Univ. of Uppsala. Fries originated the modern classification of fungi and lichens. H...

(Encyclopedia) Leuckart, Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolf kärl gāˈôrk frēˈdrĭkh ro͞oˈdôlf loiˈkärt [key], 1823–98, German zoologist, a founder of the science of parasitology. He made important discoveries i...

(Encyclopedia) coast, land bordering an ocean or other large body of water. The line of contact between the land and water surfaces is called the shoreline. It fluctuates with the waves and tides. Sometimes the term...

(Encyclopedia) Eichler, August Wilhelm ouˈgo͝ost vĭlˈhĕlm īkhˈlər [key], 1839–87, German botanist. He worked out the symmetry of the parts of a flower and developed a system of plant classification which, ...

(Encyclopedia) subspecies, also called race, a genetically distinct geographical subunit of a species. See also classification. ...