clas·si·fi·ca·tion

(klăs′ə-fĭ-kā′shən)

1. The act, process, or result of classifying.

2. A category or class.

3. Biology The systematic grouping of organisms into categories on the basis of evolutionary or structural relationships between them; taxonomy.

clas′si·fi·ca·to′ri·ly (klăs′ə-fĭ-kə-tôr′ə-lē, klə-sĭf′ĭ-) adv.

clas′si·fi·ca·to′ry (klăs′ə-fĭ-kə-tôr′ē, klə-sĭf′ĭ-, klăs′ə-fĭ-kā′tə-rē) adj.

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Adj.

classificatory - relating to or involving classification:"classificatory criteria"

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No doubt this view of the classificatory importance of organs which are important is generally, but by no means always, true.

We shall hereafter, I think, clearly see why embryological characters are of such high classificatory importance.

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