"zombie taxon" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Referring to the fossil having been mobile, or \"walking\", long after the death of the original organism.",
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      "form": "zombie taxa",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "Elvis taxon"
        },
        {
          "word": "Lazarus taxon"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A taxon that falsely appears to persist until, or reappear at, a time in the fossil record later than the taxon's actual point of extinction, due to fossils of organisms belonging to the taxon having been eroded from their original strata and redeposited in the source sediments for younger strata."
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          "fossil record",
          "fossil record"
        ],
        [
          "extinction",
          "extinction"
        ],
        [
          "fossil",
          "fossil"
        ],
        [
          "organism",
          "organism"
        ],
        [
          "erode",
          "erode"
        ],
        [
          "strata",
          "strata"
        ],
        [
          "deposit",
          "deposit"
        ],
        [
          "sediment",
          "sediment"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(paleontology) A taxon that falsely appears to persist until, or reappear at, a time in the fossil record later than the taxon's actual point of extinction, due to fossils of organisms belonging to the taxon having been eroded from their original strata and redeposited in the source sediments for younger strata."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "history",
        "human-sciences",
        "natural-sciences",
        "paleontology",
        "sciences"
      ],
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        "zombie taxon"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "zombie taxon"
}

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    {
      "word": "Elvis taxon"
    },
    {
      "word": "Lazarus taxon"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Referring to the fossil having been mobile, or \"walking\", long after the death of the original organism.",
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "en:Paleontology"
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        "A taxon that falsely appears to persist until, or reappear at, a time in the fossil record later than the taxon's actual point of extinction, due to fossils of organisms belonging to the taxon having been eroded from their original strata and redeposited in the source sediments for younger strata."
      ],
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          "extinction",
          "extinction"
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          "fossil",
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          "organism",
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          "erode",
          "erode"
        ],
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          "strata",
          "strata"
        ],
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          "deposit",
          "deposit"
        ],
        [
          "sediment",
          "sediment"
        ]
      ],
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        "(paleontology) A taxon that falsely appears to persist until, or reappear at, a time in the fossil record later than the taxon's actual point of extinction, due to fossils of organisms belonging to the taxon having been eroded from their original strata and redeposited in the source sediments for younger strata."
      ],
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        "natural-sciences",
        "paleontology",
        "sciences"
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