English > family: 8 senses > noun 3, group| Meaning | 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, group| Meaning | 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, group| Meaning | (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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