pseudotaxonomic

English

Etymology

From pseudo- +‎ taxonomic or pseudotaxonomy +‎ -ic.

Adjective

pseudotaxonomic (comparative more pseudotaxonomic, superlative most pseudotaxonomic)

  1. (uncommon) Falsely or artificially taxonomic.
    • 1991, Peter F. Sale (editor), The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs, page 159:
      However, prey are usually assigned to broad taxonomic or pseudotaxonomic categories, which may not allow the subtleties of predator impacts to be interpreted.
    • 1994, National Herbarium of New South Wales, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney (contributor), Telopea‎[1], volume 6, numbers 1-3, page 97:
      Similarly, Crisp & Weston (1993) found patterns of paedomorphosis in Telopea speciosissima to produce artifactual, 'pseudotaxonomic' patterns.
    • 2002, Dexter H. Howard (editor), Pathogenic Fungi in Humans and Animals:
      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.
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