Superfamily

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Superfamily \Su"per*fam`i*ly\, n. (Zool.)
     A group intermediate between a family and a suborder.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  superfamily
       n : (biology) a taxonomic group ranking below an order but above
           a family