taxon

Other forms of taxon

plural

taxa

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.

Questions about taxon

What does taxon mean?

taxon means "animal or plant group having natural relations".

How many syllables are in taxon?

taxon has 2 syllables: tax-on. The stress falls on "tax".

What is another word for taxon?

Close synonyms include taxonomic group, taxonomic category. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is taxon a common word?

taxon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.