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Examples:(in olden times) betrothal gift from the groom's family—arnebia (plant genus in family Boraginaceae)—Lates calcarifer (a species of catadromous fish in family Latidae of order Perciformes)—looper caterpillar, larva of moth in family Geometridae—prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or indicate affection or familiarity—eldest child in a family—number of people in a family—moth in family Geometridae—girl adopted ina family as future daughter-in-law—Wrightia tinctoria (flowering plant in Apocynaceae family, common names dyer's oleander or pala indigo)—bride's family (in marriage)—auntie, second eldest of sisters in mother's family—victim's family (esp. in murder case)—seniority in the family or clan—two simultaneous happy events in the family—son-in-law (used by wife's family)—refers a son-in-law living with wife's family—pay bride-price (payment to the bride's family in former times)—formal betrothal (in which the boy's family sends presents the girl's family)—go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family—genus Chaenomeles of shrubs in the family Rosaceae—auntie, eldest of sisters in mother's family—family of a functionary (i.e. educated middle class in Qing times)—fears of trouble in the rear (idiom); family worries (obstructing freedom of action)—family or dependents of martyr (in PRC, esp. revolutionary martyr)—man's family (in marriage)—Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (1885-1919), Bolshevik organizer, ordered the murder of the Tsar's family in 1918, died of Spanish influenza—auntie, youngest of sisters in mother's family—sweet fruit of Siraitia grosvenorii (formerly Momordica grosvenori, a gourd of the Curcubitaceae family), grown in Guangxi and used in Chinese medicine—pretty daughter in a humble family—auntie, third eldest of sisters in mother's family—coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), plant in sunflower family Asteracae used a cough suppressant—stag beetle (generic term for the beetles in the family of lucanidae)—fig. it is hard get on in one's career while encumbered by family obligations—be the one in charge of the family—fig. when one falls in disgrace the whole family is doomed— |