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noun
A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms treated as a unit by taxonomists.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, taxonomy
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
animal or plant group having natural relations
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: taxonomic group, taxonomic category
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: biological group
Narrower terms: Adapid, Adapid group, Omomyid, Omomyid group, kingdom, subkingdom, variety, phylum, subphylum, superphylum, class, subclass, superclass, order, suborder, superorder, family, superfamily, subfamily, tribe, genus, subgenus, monotype, species, subspecies, race, form, variant, strain, var., type, Pteridospermae, group Pteridospermae, Pteridospermaphyta, group Pteridospermaphyta, Centrospermae, group Centrospermae, Amentiferae, group Amentiferae, Phycomycetes, Phycomycetes group
History
Back-formation from taxonomy. By surface analysis, taxo- + -on.
Across languages
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
