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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
alpha-taxonomy en · NOUN
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of alpha taxonomy.
Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii: