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a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home"
primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family"
people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
class: a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents"
an association of people who share common beliefs or activities; "the message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family"; "the church welcomed new members into its fellowship"
(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera; "sharks belong to the fish family"
kin: a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family"
syndicate: a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
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A family is a domestic group of people, or a number of domestic groups linked through descent (demonstrated or stipulated) from a common ancestor, marriage or adoption. Families have some degree of kinship.
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Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. Modern classification has its roots in the system of Carolus Linnaeus, who grouped species according to shared physical characteristics. These groupings have been revised since Linnaeus to improve consistency with the Darwinian principle of common descent. ...
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In mathematics, it is a common practice to index or label a collection of objects by some set I called an index set. The indexed collection is called a family and normally denote by (Ai)i∈I.
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Family is the name of an award-winning television drama series that aired on ABC from 1976 to 1980.
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In mathematics, a family is a collection. It is a formal version of a lookup table. It consists of a set, called the index set, containing the keys, and a mapping from those keys onto the elements of the family. Each key points to exactly one element of the family and each element belongs to at least one key. As different keys may point to the same element, a family can, unlike a set, contain the same element several times. ...
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"Family" is an episode of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer that centers on the character Tara.
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As defined by the Census, family is a group of two or more people who reside together and who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption.
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A scientific order of taxonomy which contains genera, or genus.
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One genus or several genera which have a basically similar floral pattern make up a family.
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A broad grouping of life forms believed to have a distant common ancestry, and sharing many general traits. Families are further subdivided into genera, and genera into species. The botanical name of a family ends in "-aceae," a suffix which means "family." Therefore, you would never say "Asteraceae Family" since that would be redundant.
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A legally married couple both aged under 65; a common law husband and wife both aged under 65; a single parent; an adult couple both aged under 65 who have been cohabiting for at least one year, with up to three children aged 18 years under (or 21 in full time education).
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Set of proteins that share a common evolutionary origin reflected by their relatedness in function which is usually reflected by similarities in primary, secondary or tertiary structure. Can be ambiguous, but typically >50% identity
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Two or more persons related by blood, marriage, or convenience who occupy the same dwelling.
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A family consists of a householder and one or more other persons living in the same household who are related to the householder by birth, marriage, or adoption. All persons in a household who are related to the householder are regarded as members of his or her family. Families are classified by type as either a "married-couple family" or "other family" according to the sex of the householder and the presence of relatives.
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A group of plants having biologically similar features. (flower anatomy, fruit type, etc.)
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Arms of Family. [See under ARMS.]
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(fam' l ) In the scientific system of classification (taxonomy), family is the division between order and genus.
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is a category not defined solely by marriage (see "Familial Status").
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in the Linnaean classification scheme, a category between order and genus that is a group of closely related genera or (rarely) a single genus; an onion is scientifically considered in the genus Allium, of the family Liliaceae, in the order Liliales
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A group of related genra with similar features and distinctive characteristics.
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The family name as given by the person making the identification or from a reliable reference.
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The fifth group that scientists classify living things into. Each order is split into families. Example: The Muridae Family is in the Rodent Order.
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Group of genera collectivelly showing relationship.
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a division of classification including a number of genera agreeing in one or a set of characters and so closely related that they apparently are descended from one stem (definition by Smith).
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a higher taxonomic category for a group of related animals or plants which share common characteristics. This category is more specific than an order and broader than a genus. For more information see the classification of animals.
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(FAM-il-ee) -- A natural unit in taxonomy wherein one or more genera are combined because of a number of similar characteristics, eg, Orchidacae.
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Her Highness, the empress
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Primary documents, codes and memos may be grouped into families: primary document families, code families and memo families. The term "families" should be understood as applying to attributes of grouped units. A primary text family named "MALE" may subsume all interviews with male interviewees, a code family "THEORY" may collect all codes reflecting a theoretical perspective. etc.
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taxonomic group above genus, but below order; suffix is -aceae.
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A taxonomic category higher than a genus. A group of plants with biologically similar features. For plants, family names end in -aceae.
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refers to a group of persons dependent upon a common or pooled income for their major expenditure items and living in the same dwelling. The term also applies to a financially independent unattached individual living alone.
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