noun: (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera ("Sharks belong to the fish family")
noun: a collection of things sharing a common attribute
noun: a group of people who live together and are related to one another, usually consisting of parents and children
noun: a group of people who are all related to one another, including dead members of the group
noun: people who are related to you
noun: children in a family
Cayce
"(Q) From which side of my family do I inherit most?
(A) You have inherited most from yourself, not from family! The family is only a river through which it (the entity, soul) flows!" [Cayce 1233-1]
R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
"In fact, each of these individual members of the vegetable kingdom belongs to a genus, and this genus to a family; and these families belong to an original "lineage." At the head of this lineage is a Neter, a "Principle" synthesizing all the characteristics of this lineage; its number, its rhythm, its classification in the general harmony." [R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, The Temple in Man, page 63]
See Also
Classification
evolution
Genus
State
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