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Meaning of taxonomically in English:

taxonomically

adverb

Biology

See taxonomic

‘The coloration was found in a wide variety of taxonomically diverse vascular plants.’

‘Some of the species being sorted out taxonomically are already relatively rare.’
‘In terms of their variability, teeth are not the best taxonomically diagnostic character at the species level.’
‘Several organisms that are taxonomically related or have similar gene content, differ greatly in their genome size.’
‘The American Buffalo (also called American Bison; taxonomically correct name = American Plains Buffalo) was brought almost to extinction by overzealous hunters.’

Pronunciation

taxonomically

/ˌtaksəˈnɒmɪkli/

adverb

Biology

See taxonomic

‘To call the actually existing order liberal - or ‘neo-liberal’ - is as taxonomically accurate as calling the old Soviet Communist Party syndicalist.’

‘A subspecies is a geographic race that is sufficiently different taxonomically to be worthy of a separate name.’
‘Though they are minor elements of most Cambrian benthic assemblages, rhynchonelliform brachiopods taxonomically and numerically dominate most post-Ordovician Paleozoic benthic assemblages.’
‘Orangutans are taxonomically classified as two distinct subspecies, the Bornean (Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus) and the Sumatran (Pongo pygmaeus abelli).’
‘In this example, the resultant morphologies are taxonomically confusing and correct interpretation is impossible without considering taphonomic modifications of original hard-part morphology.’