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1: mole rats; sand rats [syn: {Bathyergidae}]

1: family coextensive with genus Batis: saltworts [syn: {Batidaceae}, {saltwort family}]

1: toadfishes; related to anglers and batfishes [syn: {Batrachoididae}]

1: monoecious succulent herbs or shrubs of tropical and warm regions especially America [syn: {Begoniaceae}, {begonia family}]

1: family of extinct Mesozoic cephalopods [syn: {Belemnitidae}]

1: ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars [syn: {Belonidae}]

1: water bugs [syn: {Belostomatidae}]

1: a family of fossil gymnospermous plants of the Carboniferous [syn: {Bennettitaceae}]

1: shrubs or herbs [syn: {Berberidaceae}, {barberry family}]

1: monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis) [syn: {Betulaceae}, {birch family}]

1: a large Bible with pages to record marriages and births

1: trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales [syn: {Bignoniaceae}]

1: a family of predacious tropical insects of the order Mecoptera [syn: {Bittacidae}]

1: a family of saprobic fungi of order Blastocladiales [syn: {Blastodiaceae}]

1: domestic cockroaches [syn: {Blattidae}]

1: one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; includes genera Blechnum; Doodia; Sadleria; Stenochlaena; Woodwardia [syn: {Blech...

1: a family of fish including: combtooth blennies [syn: {Blenniidae}]

1: boas and pythons [syn: {Boidae}]

1: family of pore-bearing fleshy fungi having the spores easily separating from the cup and often from each other [syn: {Boletaceae}]

1: tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds [syn: {Bombacaceae}]

1: Chinese silkworm moth [syn: {Bombycidae}]

1: a family of birds of the suborder Oscines [syn: {Bombycillidae}]

1: bee flies [syn: {Bombyliidae}]

1: a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit [syn: {Boraginaceae}, {borage family}]

1: a family of fish of the order Heterosomata [syn: {Bothidae}]

1: true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats [syn: {Bovidae}]

1: true sloths; in some [syn: {Bradypodidae}]

1: deep-bodied percoid fishes of the open seas [syn: {Bramidae}]

1: small annelid worms with the posterior end modified into an adhesive sucker; especially formerly regarded as modified leeches [syn: {Branchiobdellidae}]

1: small family of marine fishes having covered gills [syn: {Branchiostegidae}]

1: lancelets [syn: {Amphioxidae}, {family Amphioxidae}, {Branchiostomidae}]

1: plants with four-petaled flowers [syn: {Cruciferae}, {family Cruciferae}, {Brassicaceae}, {mustard family}]

1: narrow-mouthed toads and sheep frogs; some burrow and some are arboreal; found worldwide [syn: {Microhylidae}, {family Microhylidae}, {Brevicipitidae}]

1: a family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance [syn: {Bromeliaceae}, {pineapple family}]

1: chiefly deep-sea fishes related to the Ophidiidae [syn: {Brotulidae}]

1: seed beetles [syn: {Bruchidae}]

1: a family of acrocarpous mosses [syn: {Bryaceae}]

1: whelks [syn: {Buccinidae}]

1: puffbirds [syn: {Bucconidae}]

1: hornbills [syn: {Bucerotidae}]

1: true toads [syn: {Bufonidae}]

1: large wading birds resembling the plovers: stone curlews [syn: {Burhinidae}]

1: family of chiefly tropical herbs with basal leaves like bracts and small flowers [syn: {Burmanniaceae}]

1: resinous or aromatic chiefly tropical shrubs or trees [syn: {Burseraceae}, {torchwood family}]

1: a corporation that is entirely owned by the members of a single family

1: widely distributed evergreen shrubs and trees [syn: {Buxaceae}, {box family}]

1: constituting the order Opuntiales [syn: {Cactaceae}, {cactus family}]

1: coextensive with the order Gymnophiona: legless amphibians [syn: {Caeciliidae}, {family Caeciliidae}, {Caeciliadae}]

1: coextensive with the order Gymnophiona: legless amphibians [syn: {Caeciliidae}, {Caeciliadae}, {family Caeciliadae}]

1: small marsupials of southern South America [syn: {Caenolestidae}]

1: spiny trees, shrubs, or perennial herbs, including the genera Caesalpinia, Cassia, Ceratonia, Bauhinia; commonly included in the family Leguminosae [syn: {Caesalpiniaceae}]

1: dragonets [syn: {Callionymidae}]

1: blowflies [syn: {Calliphoridae}]

1: marmosets [syn: {Callithricidae}]

1: dicot aquatic herbs [syn: {Callitrichaceae}]

1: a family of fungi belonging to the order Tulostomatales [syn: {Calostomataceae}]

1: shrubs or small trees having aromatic bark; the eastern United States and eastern Asia [syn: {Calycanthaceae}, {calycanthus family}, {strawberry-shrub family}]

1: camels and llamas and vicunas [syn: {Camelidae}]

1: family of plants of the order Campanulales; in some classifications includes Lobeliaceae [syn: {Campanulaceae}, {bellflower family}]

1: many of the best known edible crabs [syn: {Cancridae}]

1: 1 genus: aromatic tropical trees of eastern Africa and Florida to West Indies [syn: {Canellaceae}, {canella family}]

1: dogs; wolves; jackals; foxes [syn: {Canidae}]

1: 2 genera of erect or twining wind-pollinated herbs: genera Cannabis and Humulus; term not used in all classifications; in some the genus Cannabis is placed in the family Moraceae and the genus Humu...

1: coextensive with the genus Canna [syn: {Cannaceae}]

1: barbets [syn: {Capitonidae}]

1: a dilleniid dicot family of the order Rhoeadales that includes: genera Capparis; Cleome; Crateva; Polanisia [syn: {Capparidaceae}, {caper family}]

1: shrubs and small trees and woody vines [syn: {Caprifoliaceae}, {honeysuckle family}]

1: goatsuckers [syn: {Caprimulgidae}]

1: boarfishes [syn: {Caproidae}]

1: coypus [syn: {Capromyidae}]

1: leaf bugs [syn: {Miridae}, {family Miridae}, {Capsidae}]

1: ground beetles [syn: {Carabidae}]

1: large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas [syn: {Carangidae}]

1: pearlfishes: related to the Brotulidae [syn: {Carapidae}]

1: largest family of living sharks; found worldwide especially in tropical waters; dorsal fin lacks spines: requiem sharks including tiger sharks and soupfin sharks [syn: {Carcharhinidae}]

1: sand sharks; in some classifications coextensive with family Carcharhinidae [syn: {Carchariidae}, {Odontaspididae}, {family Odontaspididae}]

1: somewhat heart-shaped sand-burrowing bivalve mollusks [syn: {Cardiidae}]

1: cranelike South American wading birds [syn: {Cariamidae}]

1: trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leaves [syn: {Caricaceae}, {papaya family}]

1: used in some classification systems for the genera Carpinus; Ostryopsis; and Ostryopsis [syn: {Carpinaceae}, {subfamily Carpinaceae}]

1: small genus of tropical South American trees [syn: {Caryocaraceae}]

1: large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes) [syn: {Caryophyllaceae}, {carnation family}, {pink family}]

1: beavers [syn: {Castoridae}]

1: a family of large ostrich-like birds including cassowaries [syn: {Casuaridae}]

1: 1 genus: Casuarina [syn: {Casuarinaceae}]

1: condors; turkey buzzards; king vultures [syn: {Cathartidae}]

1: suckers; closely related to the family Cyprinidae [syn: {Catostomidae}]

1: a family of Hystricomorpha [syn: {Caviidae}]

1: all the New World monkeys except marmosets and tamarins [syn: {Cebidae}]

1: gall midges [syn: {Cecidomyidae}]

1: in some classifications included in family Moraceae [syn: {Cecropiaceae}]

1: trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having bright-colored fruits [syn: {Celastraceae}, {spindle-tree family}, {staff-tree family}]

1: sunfish family [syn: {Centrarchidae}]

1: shrimpfishes [syn: {Centriscidae}]

1: a family of fish or the order Perciformes including robolos [syn: {Centropomidae}]

1: a family of Nematoda [syn: {Cephalobidae}]

1: a family of plants of order Rosales; coextensive with the genus Cephalotus [syn: {Cephalotaceae}]

1: a family of Cephalotaxaceae [syn: {Cephalotaxaceae}, {plum-yew family}]

1: long-horned beetles [syn: {Cerambycidae}]

1: lungfishes having hornlike ridges on the teeth [syn: {Ceratodontidae}]

1: coextensive with the genus Ceratophyllum: hornworts [syn: {Ceratophyllaceae}]

1: biting midges; sand flies [syn: {Ceratopogonidae}]

1: American ceratopsian dinosaurs [syn: {Ceratopsidae}]

1: fungi having carbonous perithecia with long necks [syn: {Ceratostomataceae}]

1: 1 genus [syn: {Cercidiphyllaceae}]

1: froghoppers or spittlebugs [syn: {Cercopidae}]

1: Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey [syn: {Cercopithecidae}]

1: creepers [syn: {Certhiidae}]

1: deer: reindeer; moose or elks; muntjacs; roe deer [syn: {Cervidae}]

1: coextensive with the order Cestida; ctenophores having a greatly flattened and elongated body [syn: {Cestidae}]

1: in some older classifications considered the family of the basking sharks [syn: {Cetorhinidae}]

1: butterfly fishes [syn: {Chaetodontidae}]

1: an arthropod family including: chalcidflies [syn: {Chalcididae}, {family Chalcididae}, {Chalcidae}]

1: an arthropod family including: chalcidflies [syn: {Chalcididae}, {Chalcidae}, {family Chalcidae}]

1: Old World chameleons; in some classifications Rhiptoglossa is considered a superfamily of Sauria [syn: {Chamaeleontidae}, {family Chamaeleontidae}, {Chamaeleonidae}, {Rhiptoglossa}, {family Rhiptog...

1: Old World chameleons; in some classifications Rhiptoglossa is considered a superfamily of Sauria [syn: {Chamaeleontidae}, {Chamaeleonidae}, {family Chamaeleonidae}, {Rhiptoglossa}, {family Rhiptogl...

1: green algae superficially resembling horsetail ferns: stoneworts [syn: {Characeae}]

1: tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and South America and Central America [syn: {Characidae}]

1: former name of the Characidae [syn: {Characinidae}]

1: plover family [syn: {Charadriidae}]