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operational taxonomic units

operational taxonomic units is the plural of operational taxonomic unit.

Meaning of operational taxonomic unit

Noun

operational taxonomic unit (plural operational taxonomic units)

  1. A terminal node in phylogenetic analysis; an organism.
    • External nodes: things under comparison; operational taxonomic units

Questions about operational taxonomic units

What is operational taxonomic units the plural of?
Operational taxonomic units is the plural of operational taxonomic unit.

Words near operational taxonomic units in the dictionary

  1. operational fatigue
  2. operational research
  3. operational service period
  4. operational service periods
  5. operational taxonomic unit
  6. operational taxonomic units
  7. operationalisability
  8. operationalisable
  9. operationalisation
  10. operationalisations
  11. operationalise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: operational taxonomic units (page history and authors); operational taxonomic unit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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