taxon

See also: Taxon, taxón, táxon, and tàxon

English

Etymology

Back-formation from taxonomy. By surface analysis, taxo- +‎ -on.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtæksɒn/, /ˈtæksən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtæksɑn/

• Audio (UK):

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• Audio (US):

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Noun

taxon (plural taxa or (proscribed) taxons)

1. (taxonomy) A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

   Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:taxon

Derived terms

• adelphotaxon
• daughter taxon
• Elvis taxon
• eutaxon
• form taxon
• ichnotaxon
• intertaxon
• intrataxon
• Lazarus taxon
• morphotaxon
• multitaxon
• nothotaxon
• ootaxon
• orthotaxon
• palynotaxon
• parataxon
• parent taxon
• subtaxon
• supertaxon
• taxonic
• taxonically
• taxonicity
• taxonify
• wastebasket taxon
• zombie taxon

Translations

taxonomic group

Arabic: وَحْدَةٌ تَصْنِيفِيَّةٌ f (waḥdatun taṣnīfiyyatun) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: таксон m (takson) Catalan: tàxon m, taxó m Chinese: Mandarin: 分類單元 / 分类单元 (fēnlèi dānyuán) Czech: taxon (cs) m Dutch: taxon (nl) n Esperanto: taksono (eo) Finnish: taksoni (fi) French: taxon (fr) m Galician: taxon (gl) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Taxon (de) n Hindi: please add this translation if you can Japanese: 分類群 (ja) (bunruigun) Korean: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: таксон m (takson) Polish: takson (pl) m Portuguese: táxon (pt) m Romanian: taxon m Russian: таксон (ru) m (takson) Scottish Gaelic: tacson m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: таксон m Latin: takson (sh) m Slovene: taksọ̑n m Spanish: taxón (es) m Swedish: taxon (sv) n Tamil: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: đơn vị phân loại

Further reading

• taxon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Axton

Dutch

Etymology

An internationalism, representing a back-formation from taxonomie.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

taxon n (plural taxa or taxons)

1. (taxonomy) taxon

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tak.sɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

taxon m (plural taxons)

1. (taxonomy) taxon

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxon.

Noun

taxon m (plural taxoni)

1. (taxonomy) taxon

Declension

Declension of taxon

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	taxon	taxonul		taxoni	taxonii
genitive-dative	taxon	taxonului		taxoni	taxonilor
vocative	taxonule			taxonilor

Spanish

Noun

taxon m (plural táxones)

1. alternative form of taxón

Further reading

• “taxon”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024