Definition of form class Form class

We found 2 definitions of form class from 2 different sources.

What does form class mean?

Noun
form class - one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context
		part of speech, word class
		grammatical category, syntactic category (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties

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form class (Noun)
A collection of organisms that is given formal recognition at the rank of class with a taxonomic name, but which is known to be an artificial group rather than a natural one.