taxonomic group
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7.0
- noun
- /tækˈsɒnəmɪk ɡruːp/
- Specialized
:
grupo taxonómico
- The biologist classified the species into several distinct taxonomic groups based on their evolutionary relationships.
- species within a taxonomic group
- richness among taxonomic groups
- distribution of entire taxonomic groups
Examples
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Thus, for example, data sets on the global distribution of entire taxonomic groups—mammals, birds, amphibians—have now been compiled.
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Summary of the prevalence of eight major threats to Australia's threatened species, expressed as the percentage of species affected by taxonomic group and habitat.
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Such criteria should be easily and consistently applied across all biogeographic regions and taxonomic groups.
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One limitation of this technique is that a single primer set can only target one taxonomic group.
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Hauled fish and prawns were sorted immediately into taxonomic groups, often to the family level, and then weighed.
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We tabulated predation events by year since burn, predator species, taxonomic group, and habitat association.
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Sampling effects may also limit the power to discern coherent responses from individual taxa or taxonomic groups.
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Are similar taxonomic groups involved in decomposition irrespective of biomes and latitude?
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We created a training set of images of 54 taxonomic groups covering most of the stoneflies, caddisflies, and mayflies found in the US Pacific Northwest.
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Rules of thumb adopted across taxonomic groups are problematic, as they ignore the variability inherent among biota for the sake of simplicity.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
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A number of people or things seen as one unit
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2.9
A type of thing that has similar features
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7.5
A group of related animal or plant families in science
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4.8
One of the main groups scientists use for living things like animals or plants
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3.7
A group of things that share the same features
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3.6
A smaller part of a larger group that has its own role or feature
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2.5
All animals, living and extinct, that are not plants or fungi
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2.7
People or things that form one unit
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7.7
A major group used to classify plants
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8.7
A large group of animals or plants with the same basic body structure
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8.7
A group of plants or animals that come from the same ancestor and include all its descendants
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7.5
A group of things that share common features
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2.0
A number of animals seen together as one unit, like a herd
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A group of living things that scientists put together, like a species or family
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A group inside a larger family of animals or languages
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6.8
A group of animals or plants within a species with small differences that live in one area
A rank in the classification of living things like species or family that shows how they are related
A group of plants or animals put together because they share traits
A group within a genus that contains closely related species
A group of related plants or animals below a tribe in biology
A temporary group for living things, often fossils, whose relations to others are unclear
How Specific
Surface Forms
Morphology
Given knowledge of 'taxonomic' (pertaining to classification of organisms) and 'group' (a set or unit), the meaning 'a group defined by taxonomy' is directly and compositionally derivable. The noun phrase is technical but regular and has clear cross-linguistic parallels, so learners who know the constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Taxonomic group comes from the idea of sorting living things into named groups: taxonomic means 'arranged' and group means 'a set', so imagine placing similar living things into labeled boxes. That's why it means 'a group of similar living things'.