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Re: [edict-jmdict] Policy on names




On Jul 12, 2010, at 5:46 AM, René Malenfant wrote:

Just [plant] and [animal] is insufficient.  There are five biological kingdoms.  And if fungi get labelled as 'plants', I'll be upset...  Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than to flowers.


Perhaps just a simple {taxon} tag is best.  That could be applied to any biological group, including ones like opisthokonts that contain multiple 'kingdoms'.

I agree that a taxonomical tag is desireable.  Perhaps any entry using latin to describe species, sub-species, genera, sub-genera, family, sub-family, order etc. etc.  The added benefit would be to be able to quickly produce biological dictionaries on the fly.