wastebasket taxon

/W EY1 S T B AE0 S K AH0 T AE0 K S AH0 N/
noun
  1. 1

    (informal) A taxon that exists only to classify organisms that do not fit anywhere else, being either paraphyletic or polyphyletic and therefore not considered valid under modern rules of taxonomy.

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