taxon meaning

Noun: taxon (taxa)  taksón

1. Animal or plant group having natural relations
   - taxonomic group, taxonomic category

Derived forms: taxa

Type of: biological group

Encyclopedia: Taxon

[Medicine]
n pl taxa also tax·ons
1 : a taxonomic group or entity
2 : the name applied to a taxonomic group in a formal system of nomenclature

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1. a taxon is any taxonomic grouping, such as a phylum, a family or a species.
2. a complete enumeration of the types of embryos in each taxon is considerably beyond the scope of this work.
3. when plots of equal size are compared, the corresponding percent occurrence for a taxon is named "constancy".
4. a diagnosis is a shortened description covering only those characters which are necessary to distinguish a taxon from other related taxa.
5. a scientific name of a taxon at the rank of species