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Taxon

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Biology A taxonomic category or group, such as a phylum, order, family, genus, or species.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Any of the taxonomic categories such as phylum or subspecies

n. A specific taxonomic category above superfamily and below infraorder; a parvorder

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. a taxonomic group, or the name of a taxonomic grouping.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. animal or plant group having natural relations

Word Usage

"Just came across this article on an anigmatic new taxon from the Ediacaran, reporting the discovery of the eight-armed organism Eoandromeda octobrachiata from China and Australia."

Variant

taxa

Form

subtaxon supertaxa subtaxa taxonic taxonically taxonicity supertaxon