English > family: 8 senses > noun 3, groupMeaning | A collection of things sharing a common attribute. |
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Synonyms | class, category |
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Members | superphylum | (biology) a taxonomic group ranking between a phylum and below a class or subclass |
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Narrower | brass family | (music) the family of brass instruments |
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conjugation | A class of verbs having the same inflectional forms |
declension | A class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms |
denomination | A class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money |
grammatical category, syntactic category | (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties |
histocompatibility complex | A family of fifty or more genes on the sixth human chromosome that code for proteins on the surfaces of cells and that play a role in the immune response |
sex | Either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided |
stamp | A type or class |
substitution class, paradigm | The class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another) |
violin family | (music) the family of bowed stringed instruments |
woodwind family | (music) the family of woodwind instruments |
Broader | collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage | Several things grouped together or considered as a whole |
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Spanish | categoría, clase, familia |
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Catalan | categoria, classe, família |
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English > family: 8 senses > noun 4, groupMeaning | People descended from a common ancestor. |
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Example | "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" |
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Synonyms | family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry |
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Narrower | dynasty | A sequence of powerful leaders in the same family |
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homefolk | The people of your home locality (especially your own family) |
house | aristocratic family line |
name, gens | family based on male descent |
people | Members of a family line |
Broader | lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock | The descendants of one individual |
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Spanish | familia, hermandad, linaje, línea familiar, pariente, parientes |
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Catalan | família, línia familiar, parents |
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English > family: 8 senses > noun 6, groupMeaning | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera. |
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Example | "sharks belong to the fish family" |
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Category | biology, biological science | The science that studies living organisms |
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Member of | order | (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families |
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Members | Arenaviridae | A family of arborviruses carried by arthropods |
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Bunyaviridae | A large family of arboviruses that affect a wide range of hosts (mainly vertebrates and arthropods) |
Flaviviridae | A family of arboviruses carried by arthropods |
Reoviridae | A family of arboviruses carried by arthropods |
Rhabdoviridae | A family of arborviruses carried by arthropods |
Togaviridae | A family of arboviruses carried by arthropods |
genus | (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species |
subfamily | (biology) a taxonomic category below a family |
tribe | (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily |
Narrower | Bittacidae, family Bittacidae | A family of predacious tropical insects of the order Mecoptera |
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Endamoebidae, family Endamoebidae | A large family of endoparasitic amebas that invade the digestive tract |
Filoviridae | A family of threadlike RNA viruses that cause diseases in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) |
Panorpidae, family Panorpidae | A family of insects of the order Mecoptera |
amphibian family | Any family of amphibians |
arthropod family | Any of the arthropods |
bacteria family | A family of bacteria |
bird family | A family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings |
chordate family | Any family in the phylum Chordata |
coelenterate family | A family of coelenterates |
ctenophore family | A family of ctenophores |
dicot family, magnoliopsid family | family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
echinoderm family | A family of echinoderms |
fern family | families of ferns and fern allies |
fish family | Any of various families of fish |
form family | (biology) an artificial taxonomic category for organisms of which the true relationships are obscure |
fungus family | Includes lichen families |
mammal family | A family of mammals |
mollusk family | A family of mollusks |
monocot family, liliopsid family | family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
moss family | A family of mosses |
plant family | A family of plants |
protoctist family | Any of the families of Protoctista |
reptile family | A family of reptiles |
worm family | A family of worms |
Broader | taxonomic group, taxonomic category, taxon | animal or plant group having natural relations |
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Spanish | familia, família, familiar |
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Catalan | família, familiar |
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