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单词 -taxis
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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
-taxis, -taxy n combining form
  1. indicating movement towards or away from a specified stimulus: thermotaxis
  2. order or arrangement: phyllotaxis
Etymology: from New Latin, from Greek taxis order

-tactic, -taxic adj combining form
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
tax•is1  (taksis),USA pronunciation n., pl. tax•es 
    (taksēz).USA pronunciation 
  1. arrangement or order, as in one of the physical sciences.
  2. Animal Behavior, Biology[Biol.]oriented movement of a motile organism in response to an external stimulus, as toward or away from light.
  3. Surgerythe replacing of a displaced part, or the reducing of a hernia or the like, by manipulation without cutting.
  4. [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

tax•is2  (taksēz),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. a pl. of taxi. 

-taxis, 
  1. a combining form representing taxis 1 in compound words:heterotaxis.Cf. tax-, taxi-, taxo-, -taxy. 

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