subfamilies
Branches within families
Subfamilies is the plural of subfamily, a grouping in biological classification that sits between family and genus.
Taxonomists use subfamilies to organize related genera within a larger family: The cat family includes subfamilies for big cats and small cats.
The term also applies to related groups within language families: the Germanic subfamily of Indo-European.
Taxonomic ranks above species
- tribesAncestral social groups
- speciesFinest taxonomic rank
- cladesMonophyletic taxonomic groups
- classificationSystematic grouping by traits
taxonomy · lineages · phylogeny · orders · suborders · nomenclature · systematics · taxa
State of being related
- clansRelated family groups
- lineagesRecorded chains of descent
- branchesLimbs of trees
- relativesThose connected by blood
descendants · generations · patrilineal · matrilineal · genealogy · bloodlines · dynasties · houses
Taxonomic rank beneath species
- generaTaxonomic ranks above species
- traitsDistinguishing personal features
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
- evolutionaryPertaining to gradual biological change
Regional language variations
- branchesLimbs of trees
- Indo-EuropeanVast language family
- BantuAfrican language family
- SemiticOf Hebrew or Arabic peoples
Romance · Germanic · Slavic · proto-languages · cognates · Sino-Tibetan · Austronesian · Niger-Congo
genera
Taxonomic ranks above species
classification · taxonomy · lineages · phylogeny · orders · suborders · nomenclature · systematics · taxa · groupings
kinship
State of being related
relatives · descendants · generations · patrilineal · matrilineal · genealogy · bloodlines · dynasties · houses · ancestral lines
subspecies
Taxonomic rank beneath species
- generaTaxonomic ranks above species
- traitsDistinguishing personal features
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
evolutionary · ancestral · divergence · speciation · common ancestor
dialects
Regional language variations
- branchesLimbs of trees
- Indo-EuropeanVast language family
- BantuAfrican language family
Semitic · Romance · Germanic · Slavic · proto-languages · cognates · Sino-Tibetan · Austronesian · Niger-Congo · Dravidian
- groupingsgroups, categories, classes, divisions, clusters
family, familiar, unfamiliar, families, familial, subfamily, superfamily, interfamily