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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -taxis, -taxy n combining form - indicating movement towards or away from a specified stimulus: thermotaxis
- order or arrangement: phyllotaxis
Etymology: from New Latin, from Greek taxis order-tactic, -taxic adj combining form tax•is1 (tak′sis),USA pronunciation n., pl. tax•es (tak′sēz).USA pronunciation - arrangement or order, as in one of the physical sciences.
- Animal Behavior, Biology[Biol.]oriented movement of a motile organism in response to an external stimulus, as toward or away from light.
- Surgerythe replacing of a displaced part, or the reducing of a hernia or the like, by manipulation without cutting.
- [Archit.]the adaptation to the purposes of a building of its various parts.
- Greek táxis, equivalent. to tak- (base of tássein to arrange, put in order) + -sis -sis
- Neo-Latin
- 1720–30
- a pl. of taxi.
-taxis, - a combining form representing taxis 1 in compound words:heterotaxis.Cf. tax-, taxi-, taxo-, -taxy.
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