Taxons
6 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
Plural of taxon, referring to groups of organisms classified together at any level of biological taxonomy based on shared natural characteristics.
“The researchers proposed several new taxons within the beetle genus they had studied.”
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X in position 3, ends in -ONS, A and O as vowels, the X is the letter to identify early in Wordle
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Worth 13 points, X contributes 8 points and the word is a valid scientific term for Scrabble dictionaries
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