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taxon

[ UK /tˈæksən/ ]
NOUN
  1. animal or plant group having natural relations

How To Use taxon In A Sentence

  • The new taxon is named Gamerabaena, and the authors note, under etymology, "'Gamera refers to the fictional, firebreathing turtle from the 1965 movie Gamera, in allusion to his fire-breathing capabilities and the Hell Creek Formation ... "Look at everything around us. Look at everything we've done."
  • The operculum illustrated by Reed does not match in outline the conch, and is here considered to be a different taxon.
  • A combining approach to find all taxon names (FAT) in legacy biosystematic literature. BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • A herbarium is a collection of dried, generally mounted, plant specimens used for a number of purposes, including documenting the taxonomy of a species or like a library that contains a collection of books for reading or useful materials for common use. YubaNet.com
  • Some taxonomic groups are particularly species rich in a global context: any impact of climate warming on such species, for example, willows (Salix spp.), sawflies, stoneflies, wading birds, and salmonid fish, is likely to affect their diversity at the global level. Arctic environments north of the treeline
  • That means that, on the strict taxonomic level, chimps and gorillas are hominids.
  • Previous taxonomic groupings were based largely on single characters.
  • Quantitative growth ring analysis of fossil woods may be used only in well-constrained paleoecological studies where taxonomic and climatic sources of variability can be controlled, and additionally, of course, as a qualitative tool in paleoclimatic and paleoecological analyses. Supplementary Comments to NAS Panel « Climate Audit
  • To discuss all the varieties would require a complete taxonomy of possible metaethical positions. Boys in White Suits
  • A member of a formerly recognized taxonomic group that included all seedless plants, such as mosses, algae, fungi, and ferns.
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