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taxis¹

  • /ˈtæksɪs/

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τάξις (táxis, “arrangement, order”).

noun taxes

  1. countable, uncountable The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.
  2. countable, uncountable The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after dislocation or fracture.

    Similar: reduction

  3. countable, rhetoric, uncountable The arrangement of the parts of a topic.
  4. countable, uncountable arrangement or ordering generally, as in architecture or grammar
  5. countable, historical, uncountable A brigade in an Ancient Greek army.

taxis²

  • /ˈtæksiz/

Rhymes with -æksiz

Where it comes from

See taxi.

noun taxies

  1. plural plural of taxi

verb taxies

  1. indicative, present, singular, third person third-person singular simple present indicative of taxi

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: taxicab, cab, hack, cabbie, fare, rank, unmetered, persons, attendants, hohenlohe, personages, thurn, telotaxis, biotaxis, phototaxis, barotaxis

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noun biology: movement of an organism in response to a stimulus

中文趨性 /趋性 qūxìng
Ελληνικάτροπισμός tropismós
Русскийтаксис taksis, реакция reakcija

noun medicine, surgery: movement of a body part; resetting

Ελληνικάανάταξη anátaxi

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@misc{taxis_2026,
  title = {taxis},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/taxis},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}