subfamily

English Thesaurus

1. (biology) a taxonomic category below a family (noun.group)

hypernym	:	taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group,
definition	:	animal or plant group having natural relations (noun.group)

hyponym	:	latinae,
definition	:	a subfamily of the family Centropomidae (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family,
definition	:	(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera (noun.group)

domain category	:	biological science, biology,
definition	:	the science that studies living organisms (noun.cognition)