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1: alternative names for the family comprising the New Zealand wrens [syn: {Xenicidae}, {family Xenicidae}, {Acanthisittidae}]

1: surgeonfishes [syn: {Acanthuridae}]

1: mites [syn: {Acaridae}]

1: hawks; Old World vultures; kites; harriers; eagles [syn: {Accipitridae}]

1: a family of trees and shrubs of order Sapindales including the maples [syn: {Aceraceae}, {maple family}]

1: sturgeons [syn: {Acipenseridae}]

1: short-horned grasshoppers; true locusts [syn: {Acrididae}, {Locustidae}, {family Locustidae}]

1: tropical trees or shrubs or woody vines [syn: {Actinidiaceae}]

1: filamentous anaerobic bacteria [syn: {Actinomycetaceae}]

1: plant lice [syn: {Adelgidae}]

1: used in some classification systems for some genera of the family Polypodiaceae (or Pteridaceae) [syn: {Adiantaceae}]

1: in some classifications considered the family comprising the Old World vultures which are more often included in the family Accipitridae [syn: {Aegypiidae}]

1: coextensive with the order Aepyorniformes [syn: {Aepyornidae}]

1: an Old World reptile family of Sauria [syn: {Agamidae}]

1: large family including many familiar mushrooms [syn: {Agaricaceae}]

1: chiefly tropical and xerophytic plants: includes Dracenaceae (Dracaenaceae); comprises plants that in some classifications are divided between the Amaryllidaceae and the Liliaceae [syn: {Agavaceae}...

1: poachers [syn: {Agonidae}]

1: in some classifications considered the family comprising the giant pandas [syn: {Ailuropodidae}]

1: succulent herbs or small shrubs mostly of South Africa but also New Zealand and North America: carpetweeds; fig marigolds [syn: {Aizoaceae}, {Tetragoniaceae}, {family Tetragoniaceae}, {carpetweed f...

1: bubble shells [syn: {Akeridae}]

1: larks [syn: {Alaudidae}]

1: fungi that produce white sori resembling blisters on certain flowering plants [syn: {Albuginaceae}]

1: bonefish [syn: {Albulidae}]

1: kingfishers [syn: {Alcedinidae}]

1: web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas: auks; puffins; guillemots; murres; etc. [syn: {Alcidae}]

1: whiteflies [syn: {Aleyrodidae}]

1: perennial or annual aquatic or marsh plants [syn: {Alismataceae}, {water-plantain family}]

1: one of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted; includes especially genus Allium [syn: {Alliaceae}]

1: alligators; caimans [syn: {Alligatoridae}]

1: a family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllales [syn: {Nyctaginaceae}, {family Nyctaginaceae}, {Allioniaceae}, {four-o'clock family}]

1: one of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted [syn: {Aloeaceae}, {aloe family}]

1: thresher sharks [syn: {Alopiidae}]

1: one of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted; sometimes included in subfamily Amaryllidaceae [syn: {Alstroemeriaceae}]

1: cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs [syn: {Amaranthaceae}, {amaranth family}]

1: snowdrop; narcissus; daffodil; in some classification systems considered a subfamily of the Liliaceae [syn: {Amaryllidaceae}, {amaryllis family}]

1: in some classifications considered a separate family comprising a subgroup of the Compositae including the ragweeds [syn: {Ambrosiaceae}]

1: New World salamanders [syn: {Ambystomatidae}]

1: North American catfishes [syn: {Ameiuridae}]

1: only the bowfins [syn: {Amiidae}]

1: sand lances [syn: {Ammodytidae}]

1: lancelets [syn: {Amphioxidae}, {Branchiostomidae}, {family Branchiostomidae}]

1: worm lizards [syn: {Amphisbaenidae}]

1: congo snakes [syn: {Amphiumidae}]

1: used in former classifications for plum and peach and almond trees which are now usually classified as members of the genus Prunus [syn: {Amygdalaceae}]

1: small freshwater spiny-finned fishes of Africa and southern Asia [syn: {Anabantidae}]

1: the cashew family; trees and shrubs and vines having resinous (sometimes poisonous) juice; includes cashew and mango and pistachio and poison ivy and sumac [syn: {Anacardiaceae}, {sumac family}]

1: wolffishes [syn: {Anarhichadidae}]

1: swimming birds having heavy short-legged bodies and bills with a horny tip: swans; geese; ducks [syn: {Anatidae}]

1: freshwater gastropod [syn: {Ancylidae}]

1: hookworms [syn: {Ancylostomatidae}]

1: a large family of solitary short-tongued bees most of which burrow in the ground [syn: {Andrenidae}]

1: alligator lizards [syn: {Anguidae}]

1: eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn [syn: {Anguillidae}]

1: screamers [syn: {Anhimidae}]

1: snakebirds [syn: {Anhingidae}]

1: legless lizards [syn: {Anniellidae}]

1: chiefly tropical trees or shrubs [syn: {Annonaceae}, {custard-apple family}]

1: deathwatch beetles [syn: {Anobiidae}]

1: a family of fish including: flashlight fishes [syn: {Anomalopidae}]

1: saddle oysters [syn: {Anomiidae}]