say it: TAK-seez
taxis is a noun meaning "a locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism
the surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for taxis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.