Genus vs. Family: What's the Difference?

(Biology) A taxonomic category ranking below a family and above a species and designating a group of species that are presumed to be closely related and usually exhibit similar characteristics. In a scientific name, the genus name is capitalized and italicized, for example, Ovis for sheep and related animals.

A fundamental social group in society typically consisting of one or two parents and their children.

(Logic) A class of objects divided into subordinate species having certain common attributes.

The children of one of these groups

A class, group, or kind with common attributes.

A group of persons related by descent or marriage

A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.

People in the same line of descent; lineage

A taxon at this rank.

(Obsolete) All the members of a household living under one roof.

A group with common attributes.

A locally independent organized crime unit, as of the Cosa Nostra.

A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.

A group of like things; a class

(semantics) Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.

A group of individuals derived from a common stock

(music) A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.

(Biology) A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below an order and above a genus. A family usually consists of several genera.

A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.

(Linguistics) A group of languages descended from the same parent language, such as the Indo-European language family.

An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus; if its definition can not be made clear, it is more or less an artificial genus.

(Mathematics) A set of functions or surfaces that can be generated by varying the parameters of a general equation.

A general kind of something;

A group of elements with similar chemical properties.

(biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species

A vertical column in the periodic table of elements.

(Physics) Any of the three generations of elementary fermions.

Of or having to do with a family

Being suitable for a family

(countable) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.

(countable) An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.

(countable) A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.

(uncountable) Members of one's family collectively.

(countable) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.

(uncountable) Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.

A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.

(countable) Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.

A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.

A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.

A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

Suitable for children and adults.

(slang) Homosexual.

The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.

The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.

Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.

Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.

Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.

A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.

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; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order.

A social unit living together;

Primary social group; parents and children;

People descended from a common ancestor;

A collection of things sharing a common attribute;

An association of people who share common beliefs or activities;

(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera;

A person having kinship with another or others;

A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities