Usually means: Group of related protein families.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word superfamily:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. superfamily: Merriam-Webster
  2. superfamily: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. superfamily: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. superfamily: Collins English Dictionary
  5. superfamily: Vocabulary.com
  6. Superfamily, superfamily: Wordnik
  7. superfamily: Wiktionary
  8. superfamily: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. superfamily: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. superfamily: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. superfamily: Dictionary.com
  12. SUPERFAMILY, Superfamily (band), Superfamily (biology), Superfamily (molecular biology), Superfamily (taxonomy), Superfamily (zoology), Superfamily: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Superfamily: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. superfamily: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. superfamily: Rhymezone
  16. Superfamily: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. superfamily: FreeDictionary.org
  18. superfamily: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. superfamily: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. superfamily: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. superfamily: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

(Note: See superfamilies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (superfamily)

noun:  (taxonomy) A taxonomic category above family and below order (and its subdivisions).
noun:  (molecular biology) A large group of related proteins or other molecules.

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