n. 1. 1 a family of fish comprising the thresher sharks.
Syn. -- family Alopiidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 the family comprising the deathwatch beetles.
Syn. -- family Anobiidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 a family of mammals comprising the mountain beavers.
Syn. -- family Aplodontiidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 a family comprising the tiger moths.
Syn. -- family Arctiidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 a family comrising the pill bugs.
Syn. -- family Armadillidiidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family of dipterous insects comprising the bee flies.
Syn. -- family Bombyliidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. a natural family comprising the sand sharks; in some classifications coextensive with the family Carcharhinidae.
Syn. -- family Carchariidae, Odontaspididae, family Odontaspididae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family of somewhat heart-shaped sand-burrowing bivalve mollusks.
Syn. -- family Cardiidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family of birds cosisting of several species of creepers, such as Certhia americana, the tree creeper.
Syn. -- family Certhiidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family of birds comprising the plovers.
Syn. -- family Charadriidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family including the green turtles; hawksbills.
Syn. -- family Cheloniidae, Chelonidae, family Chelonidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family of birds comprising the storks.
Syn. -- family Ciconiidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) a family of birds comprising the rollers.
Syn. -- family Coraciidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family comprising solely the aye-aye.
Syn. -- family Daubentoniidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a group of families of more or less advanced trees and shrubs and herbs having either polypetalous or gamopetalous corollas and often with ovules attached to the walls of the ovary; it contains 69 families including Ericaceae and Cruciferae and Malvaceae; it is sometimes classified as a superorder.
Syn. -- subclass Dilleniidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family consisting of threadlike roundworms, called filariae.
Syn. -- family Filariidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A natural family including ovenbirds.
Syn. -- family Furnariidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A family of moths which include important economic pests, feeding on the seeds of the cotton boll.
Syn. -- family Gelechiidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A natural family of fish comprising the gobies.
Syn. -- family Gobiidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A natural family of moths, the larvae of which are one type of leaf miner.
Syn. -- Gracillariidae, family Gracilariidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Same as Gracillariidae.
Syn. -- Gracilariidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A natural family of insects including the brown lacewings.
Syn. -- family Hemerobiidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. one of four subclasses or superorders of Monocotyledones; it comprises 17 families including: Liliaceae; Alliaceae; Amaryllidaceae; Iridaceae; Orchidaceae; Trilliaceae.
Syn. -- subclass Liliidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The natural family comprising the tussock moths.
Syn. -- family Lymantriidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a group of families of trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants; contains 36 families including Magnoliaceae and Ranunculaceae; sometimes classified as a superorder.
Syn. -- subclass Magnoliidae, ranalian complex. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A natural family of cetaceans comprising the beaked whales; in some esp. former classifications included in the family Physeteridae.
Syn. -- family Ziphiidae, Hyperodontidae, family Hyperodontidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]