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TAXON
                                           Pronunciation:   'taksun
                                           Matching Terms:   Taxodiaceae, Taxodium, Taxodium ascendens, Taxodium distichum, Taxodium mucronatum, Taxol, taxologic, taxology,
                                           taxonomer, Taxonomic, taxonomic group, taxonomical, taxonomically, taxonomist, taxonomy, Taxophytina, Taxopsida, Taxor, Taxotere
                                           WordNet Dictionary
                                            
                                             Definition:   [n]  animal or plant group having natural relations 
                                            
                                             Synonyms:   taxonomic group

Biology Dictionary
                                            
                                             Definition:   A group or category, at any level, in a system for classifying plants or animals.
                                            
                                             ***Synonyms:   plural: taxa***

Glossary
                                            
                                             Definition:   a group of organisms at any level of the taxonomic hierarchy. The major taxa are the species and genus and the higher taxa,
                                           including the family, order, class, phylum, and kingdom.
                                            
                                           http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/taxon

Learning Taxonomy
                                           by Philip Dorrell RSS

Taxonomy is one of the more important concepts in biology, and one that is actually not too hard to understand. This article presents some
                                           ideas about how it can be taught at a basic level.

Taxonomy is about the groups that different kinds of living organisms fall into. The first problem is finding a name for these groups. The
                                           word group is both vague and confusing, it suggests an actual group of individual organisms. One term is systematic unit, which is not even
                                           a single word. Taxon is short and sweet. The only problem is that it has a bizarre irregular plural: taxa. (Well, not so irregular, c.f.
                                           phenomena, criteria; but these words are more common.)

Maybe we should regularise the plural to taxons so that the irregular grammar does not distract from the discussion. This would be
                                           consistent with a basic rule of grammar which states that the inflected forms of any word that you have never heard of before are all
                                           regular.

A Sample Taxon: Birds

Some taxa are so easy that we already know them. I think the best one is the birds. Birds have wings which they use to fly and they have
                                           feathers and beaks and two legs. They lay eggs with hard shells. OK, so some of them don't fly, but we'll deal with that issue later. We see
                                           a lot of birds without knowing what particular kind of bird they are, and we just think of them as being birds.

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