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FORM FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does form family mean?
• FORM FAMILY (noun)
The noun FORM FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. (biology) an artificial taxonomic category for organisms of which the true relationships are obscure
Familiarity information: FORM FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(biology) an artificial taxonomic category for organisms of which the true relationships are obscure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("form family" is a kind of...):
family ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
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