a family of beavers
- Subject
- beaver (beavers)
- Category
- Animals → Mammals
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
Collective noun
family
What do you call a group of beavers, otters, sardines or 2 others?
a family of beavers · a family of otters · a family of sardines · …
- Used for
- 5 subjects
- Categories
- Animals, People
- Subcategories
- Fish, General, Mammals
- Type
- Generic
- Best confidence
- high
Definition
A collective noun for beavers, otters, sardines, apes, humans. No dictionary definition recorded.
Other senses of the word: family on Wiktionary
Usage as a collective noun
a family of otters
- Subject
- otter (otters)
- Category
- Animals → Mammals
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
a family of sardines
- Subject
- sardine (sardines)
- Category
- Animals → Fish
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
a family of apes
- Subject
- ape (apes)
- Category
- Animals → Mammals
- Confidence
- low
- Attestation
- wikipedia-uncited
1 source
a family of humans
- Subject
- human (humans)
- Category
- People → General
- Confidence
- low
- Attestation
- wikipedia-uncited