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- [tak-suh]
- /ˈtæk sə/
- /tækˈseɪ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [tak-suh]
- /ˈtæk sə/
Definitions of taxa word
- noun taxa plural of taxon. 1
- noun plural taxa a taxonomic category, as a species or genus. 1
- abbreviation TAXA taxon 0
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Origin of taxa
First appearance:
before 1945 One of the 6% newest English words
1945-50; < Greek táx(is) taxis1 + -on neuter noun ending; see -on1
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Taxa
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
taxa popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 86% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
taxa usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerTop questions with taxa
- what is a taxa?
- what is taxa?
- what are taxa?
- what are the 7 taxa?
- in the hierarchy of taxa what is in a family?
- to which taxa do all four organisms belong?
- how do taxa show evolutionary relationships between different organisms?
- what does taxa mean?
- what are the taxa used in biological classification?