The following 44 words ending in ‘axon.’ However, many of those words are no longer used in English literature. The Merriam-Webster dictionary doesn’t recognize a few of these words. Therefore, we have given those words without definition.
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Anglo-saxon
A member of the germanic peoples conquering england in the fifth century a.d. and forming the ruling class until the norman conquest; englishman; specifically : a person descended from the anglo-saxons; a white gentile of an english-speaking nation.
Axon
A usually long and single nerve-cell process that usually conducts impulses away from the cell body.
Caxon
Wig; especially : a much-worn wig.
Claxon
A klaxon horn.
Diaxon
A nerve cell with two axons.
Hexaxon
Hexaster.
Klaxon
—used for an electrically operated horn or warning signal.
Monaxon
Developed by growth along a single axis —used especially of a sponge spicule; having monaxon spicules —used of a sponge.
Neuraxon
Axon; central nervous system.
Polyaxon
A nerve cell having several axons; a polyaxon sponge spicule.
Saxon
A member of a germanic people that entered and conquered england with the angles and jutes in the fifth century a.d. and merged with them to form the anglo-saxon people; an englishman or lowlander as distinguished from a welshman, irishman, or highlander.
Schizaxon
An axon that splits into nearly equal branches; especially : an axon of a sensory neuron entering the spinal cord and being so split.
Squaxon
A salishan people of the southwest puget sound area, washington; a member of such people; a dialect related to skagit.
Taxon
A scientifically classified group or entity : a taxonomic unit (such as a genus or order) of any rank; the name applied to a taxonomic group in a formal system of nomenclature.
Tetraxon
A tetraxial sponge spicule.
Triaxon
A sponge spicule having three axes crossing at right angles to form six rays.
The following words also end in axon; however, we couldn’t find definitions of these words from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
- Anaxon
- Dendraxon
- Faxon
- Hiberno-saxon
- Inaxon
- Non-saxon
- Pan-saxon
- Paraxon
- Paxon
- Pre-saxon
- Scoto-saxon
- Semi-saxon
- Subtaxon
- Un-saxon
