taxonomic category

1. 1.

   animal or plant group having natural relations

   Synonymstaxonomic grouptaxon

   Broaderbiological group

   NarrowerAdapidOmomyidkingdomsubkingdomvarietyphylumsubphylumsuperphylumclasssubclass

Questions about taxonomic category

What does taxonomic category mean?

taxonomic category means "animal or plant group having natural relations".

What is another word for taxonomic category?

Close synonyms include taxonomic group, taxon. 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 taxonomic category a common word?

taxonomic category 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.