taxon

Noun

Meaning

taxon (plural taxa or (proscribed) taxons)

(taxonomy) A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.
Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:taxon

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

species genus taxonomic monotypic conspecific taxonomically taxonomical partitionist

Hypernyms

biological group

Hyponyms

kingdom class family form order species

Phrases with the word

daughter taxon parent taxon

Derivatives

taxa

Anagrams

Axton

Examples

Additionally, Linnaeus created a wastebasket taxon "monstrosus" for "wild and monstrous humans, unknown groups, and more or less abnormal people". Source: Internet

As a result, it informs the user as to what the relatives of the taxon are hypothesized to be. Source: Internet

Although the dog-like hyenas thrived 15 million years ago (with one taxon having colonised North America), they became extinct after a change in climate along with the arrival of canids into Eurasia. Source: Internet

Both kinship groups, the odd-toed ungulates and litopterna-notoungulata are now in the higher-level taxon the Panperissodactyla. Source: Internet

Another house wren complex taxon; other scientific names include T. musculus martinicensis and T. martinicensis. Source: Internet

A paraphyletic taxon contains its most recent common ancestor, but does not contain all the descendants of that ancestor. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

taxometer taxometric taxometrics taxonal taxonavigation taxonic