English > taxon: 1 sense > noun 1, group| Meaning | animal or plant group having natural relations. |
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| Synonyms | taxonomic group, taxonomic category |
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| Narrower | Adapid, Adapid group | Extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit |
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| Amentiferae, group Amentiferae | Used in some classification systems for plants that bear catkins |
| Centrospermae, group Centrospermae | Used in former classification systems |
| Omomyid, Omomyid group | Extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects |
| Phycomycetes, Phycomycetes group | A large and probably unnatural group of fungi and funguslike organisms comprising the Mastigomycota (including the Oomycetes) and Zygomycota subdivisions of the division Eumycota |
| Pteridospermae, group Pteridospermae, Pteridospermaphyta, group Pteridospermaphyta | Used in some classification systems |
| class | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders |
| family | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera |
| form, variant, strain, var. | (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups |
| genus | (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species |
| kingdom | The highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped |
| monotype | (biology) a taxonomic group with a single member (a single species or genus) |
| order | (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families |
| phylum | (biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants |
| species | (biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed |
| subclass | (biology) a taxonomic category below a class and above an order |
| subfamily | (biology) a taxonomic category below a family |
| subgenus | (biology) taxonomic group between a genus and a species |
| subkingdom | (biology) a taxonomic group comprising a major division / division of a kingdom |
| suborder | (biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order |
| subphylum | (biology) a taxonomic group ranking between a phylum and a class |
| subspecies, race | (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species |
| superclass | (biology) a taxonomic class below a phylum and above a class |
| superfamily | (biology) a taxonomic group ranking below an order but above a family |
| superorder | (biology) a taxonomic group ranking above an order and below a class or subclass |
| superphylum | (biology) a taxonomic group ranking between a phylum and below a class or subclass |
| tribe | (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily |
| type | (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics / characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon |
| variety | (biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics / characteristics |
| Broader | biological group | A group of plants or animals |
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| Spanish | taxon, taxón |
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| Catalan | taxó, taxon, tàxon |
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