The orchid family is one of the two largest families of angiosperms ( the other is Asteraceae ).

* The oldest and largest is the Brahmic family of India and Southeast Asia, in which vowels are marked with diacritics and syllable-final consonants, when they occur, are indicated with ligatures, diacritics, or with a special vowel-canceling mark.

The family is large, with more than 3, 700 species spread across 434 genera, it is the sixteenth largest family of flowering plants.

Morita's family invested in Sony during the early period and was the largest shareholder.

Adult bears generally weigh between and its largest subspecies, the Kodiak bear, rivals the polar bear as the largest member of the bear family and as the largest land-based predator.

The largest families are Begoniaceae ( begonia family ) with 1400 species and Cucurbitaceae ( gourd family ) with 825 species.

The clarinet family is the largest woodwind family, with more than a dozen types, ranging from the ( extremely rare )

At around 100, 000 years ago, the dire wolf, one of the largest members of the dog family, had spread from South America to southern Canada and from coast to coast.

The largest taxonomic family, the Curculionidae ( the weevils or snout beetles ), also belongs to this order.

The embedded CPU family with the largest number of total units shipped is the 8051, averaging nearly a billion units per year.

The history of the state's economic and industrial development is closely tied to the impact of the Du Pont family, founders and scions of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, one of the world ’ s largest chemical companies.

The park, the second largest municipal park in Dublin, is part of a former 2 km² ( 500 acre ) estate assembled by members of the Guinness family, beginning with Benjamin Lee Guinness in 1835 ( the largest municipal park is nearby ( North ) Bull Island, also shared between Clontarf and Raheny ).

The double bass is closest in construction to violins, but has some notable similarities to the violone ( literally " large viol "), the largest and lowest member of the viola da gamba family.

The family Delphinidae is the largest in the Cetacean order, and evolved relatively recently, about ten million years ago, during the Miocene.

The Fabaceae, as the third largest plant family in the world, contains most of the diversity of the Fabales, the other families making up a comparatively small portion of the order's diversity.

The Great Auk was tall and weighed around, making it the largest member of the alcid family.

Standing about tall and weighing around as adult birds, the flightless Great Auk was the largest of both its family and the order Charadriiformes.

Indo-European languages are spoken by almost three billion native speakers, the largest number by far for any recognised language family.

The largest of these organizations at present denies to the full time educator any vote on the conduct and standards of the group and, indeed, refuses him even the right to attach the customary initials after his name in the college catalog.

The suborder Neobatrachia is by far the largest group and includes the remaining families of modern frogs, including most common species.

Although the name actually applies to a group of snakes, it is often used to refer only to one species in particular, the common or green anaconda, Eunectes murinus, which is one of the largest snakes in the world.

The remaining twenty pieces cover problems in physics and ethics, of which the largest group deals with questions of vision and light, and the final four with fate and providence.

This, he claimed, discriminated against non-Anglicans, including Catholics, who are the largest faith group in Canada.

* Arab Americans, particularly Lebanese Americans ( the largest ethnic Arab group in the United States )-Arab cuisine, Lebanese cuisine

In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group of Christians in the world.

Favignana ( Aegusa ), the largest, lies south west of Trapani ; Levanzo ( Phorbantia ) west ; while Marettimo, the ancient Iera Nesos, west of Trapani, is now reckoned as a part of the group.

This is the largest group, including:

ALADI is now the largest Latin-American group of integration.

The largest island of the Amakusa group is Shimoshima, which is 26. 5 miles long and 13. 5 miles in extreme width ().

In the United States, the largest barter exchange and corporate trade group is TransMedia Barter, founded in 1993, now with representation in various countries.

Starting in 1903, the largest group emigrated to the Patagonia region of Argentina.

Estimates of the total number of Protestants are very uncertain, partly because of the difficulty in determining which denominations should be placed in these categories, but it seems clear that Protestantism is the second largest major group of Christians after Catholicism in number of followers ( although the Orthodox Church is larger than any single Protestant denomination ).

The Araucanians, a fragmented society of hunters, gatherers, and farmers, constituted the largest native American group in Chile.

It is now the largest single-issue consumer group in the UK, and is a founding member of the European Beer Consumers ' Union ( EBCU ).

As of 2011, Canadians who are of Scottish ancestry are the third largest ethnic group in the country and thus Columba's name is to be found attached to Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian parishes.

Following the discovery, starting in the 1990s, of other Kuiper belt objects, Pluto began to be seen not as a planet orbiting alone at 40 AU, but as the largest of a group of icy bodies in that region of space.

Only ethnic dominance, the case where the largest ethnic group comprises a majority of the population, increased the risk of civil war.

The Orkney-Cromarty group is by far the largest and most diverse.

Their classification is divided into the small and large rank cases, where the rank is the largest rank of an odd abelian subgroup normalizing a nontrivial 2-subgroup, which is often ( but not always ) the same as the rank of a Cartan subalgebra when the group is a group of Lie type in characteristic 2.

Largely financed, trained, equipped, armed and organized by the U. S., it emerged as the largest and most active contra group.

Rose, head of Compaq's Enterprise Computing group, was reportedly upset that he was not considered for the CEO vacancy ; his division reportedly accounted for one third of Compaq's revenues and likely the largest part of its profits.