taxonomizer

English

Etymology

taxonomize +‎ -er

Noun

taxonomizer (plural taxonomizers)

1. One who, or that which, taxonomizes.
   • 2009 April 19, Paul Bloom, “Natural Happiness”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.