nuclear family

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
nuclear family
    n 1: a family consisting of parents and their children and
         grandparents of a marital partner [syn: {nuclear family},
         {conjugal family}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
nuclear family \nuclear family\ n.
   A family consisting of parents and their children and
   grandparents of a marital partner.
   [WordNet 1.5]
    

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