form family

1. 1.

   (biology) an artificial taxonomic category for organisms of which the true relationships are obscure

   Broaderfamily

   biology

Questions about form family

What does form family mean?

form family means "(biology) an artificial taxonomic category for organisms of which the true relationships are obscure".

Is form family a common word?

form family is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.