TAXONOMIC CATEGORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does taxonomic category mean? 

• TAXONOMIC CATEGORY (noun)
  The noun TAXONOMIC CATEGORY has 1 sense:

1. animal or plant group having natural relations

  Familiarity information: TAXONOMIC CATEGORY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAXONOMIC CATEGORY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Animal or plant group having natural relations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

taxon; taxonomic category; taxonomic group

Hypernyms ("taxonomic category" is a kind of...):

biological group (a group of plants or animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "taxonomic category"):

family ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera)

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; a category not used in all systems)

Amentiferae; group Amentiferae (used in some classification systems for plants that bear catkins)

Centrospermae; group Centrospermae (used in former classification systems; approximately synonymous with order Caryophyllales)

group Pteridospermae; group Pteridospermaphyta; Pteridospermae; Pteridospermaphyta (used in some classification systems: a group of extinct fossil gymnosperms coextensive with the order Cycadofilicales)

type ((biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon)

form; strain; var.; variant ((biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups)

race; subspecies ((biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species)

species ((biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed)

monotype ((biology) a taxonomic group with a single member (a single species or genus))

subgenus ((biology) taxonomic group between a genus and a species)

genus ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species)

tribe ((biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily)

subfamily ((biology) a taxonomic category below a family)

superfamily ((biology) a taxonomic group ranking below an order but above a family)

Adapid; Adapid group (extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably include the lemurs; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins)

superorder ((biology) a taxonomic group ranking above an order and below a class or subclass)

suborder ((biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order)

order ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families)

superclass ((biology) a taxonomic class below a phylum and above a class)

subclass ((biology) a taxonomic category below a class and above an order)

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

superphylum ((biology) a taxonomic group ranking between a phylum and below a class or subclass)

subphylum ((biology) a taxonomic group ranking between a phylum and a class)

phylum ((biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes)

variety ((biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics)

subkingdom ((biology) a taxonomic group comprising a major division of a kingdom)

kingdom (the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia)

Omomyid; Omomyid group (extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; probably gave rise to the tarsiers; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins)

 Context examples 

However, they deserve a distinctive taxonomic category.

(Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition Tumor of the Mouse Mammary Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A taxonomic category above superfamily and below infraorder.

(Parvorder, NCI Thesaurus)

A taxonomic category between Order and Genus.

(Family, NCI Thesaurus)

A taxonomic category between Class and Family.

(Order, NCI Thesaurus)

A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below a subclass and above an order.

(Infraclass, NCI Thesaurus)

A taxonomic category ranking below a family (or Subfamily) and above a species and generally consisting of a group of species exhibiting similar characteristics.

(Genus, NCI Thesaurus)

A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below a suborder and above a family.

(Infraorder, NCI Thesaurus)