| Family (v. t.) The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager |
| Family (v. t.) The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society. |
| Family (v. t.) Those who descend from one common progenitor |
| Family (v. t.) Course of descent |
| Family (v. t.) Honorable descent |
| Family (v. t.) A group of kindred or closely related individuals |
| Family (v. t.) A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order |
| Zoological (a.) Of or pertaining to zoology, or the science of animals. |
| family practice / family medicine medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit |
| family therapy any of several therapeutic approaches in which a family is treated as a whole |
| natural family planning any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs, coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle |
| birth control / birth prevention / family planning limiting the number of children born |
| basal body temperature method of family planning / basal body temperature method natural family planning in which the fertile period of the woman's menstrual cycle is inferred by noting the rise in basal body temperature that typically occurs with ovulation |
| ovulation method of family planning / ovulation method natural family planning in which the fertile period is inferred from changes in the character and quantity of cervical mucus, ovulation is marked by an increase in mucus that becomes sticky and then clearer and slippery |
| bacteria family a family of bacteria |
| Rhizobiaceae / family Rhizobiaceae a small family of rod-shaped bacteria |
| Bacillaceae / family Bacillaceae typically rod-shaped usually Gram-positive bacteria that produce endospores |
| Myxophyceae / family Myxophyceae / Schizophyceae / family Schizophyceae former terms for Cyanophyceae |