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taxonomizer en · NOUN

Etymology

From taxonomize + -er.

Meanings

1. One who, or that which, taxonomizes.
   • Children are irrepressible taxonomizers, placing the world of distinct individuals into categories based on their appearance, their patterns of movement and their presumed deeper natures, and some psychologists have argued that the hard-wired capacity to organize and structure the world is specially adapted to nature: we are natural-born zoologists and botanists. 2009 April 19, Paul Bloom, “Natural Happiness”, in New York Times:

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