Term: form family: (biology) an artificial taxonomic category for organisms of which the true relationships are obscure
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: owl: nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: forty-niner: a miner who took part in the California gold rush in 1849
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: clinch: a small slip noose made with seizing
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: pipeful: the quantity of tobacco that can be smoked in a pipe at one time
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: fruit cocktail: a mixture of sliced or diced fruits
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: snake: a deceitful or treacherous person
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: anthidium: potter bees
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: bomber: a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: chrysopidae: green lacewings
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: sandboy: a young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in `happy as a sandboy'