Giraffidae

from The Century Dictionary.

• A family of ruminant artiodactyl ungulate mammals, having the placenta polycotyledonary and the stomach quadripartite with developed psalterium, the cervical vertebræ much elongated, the dorsolumbars declivous backward, and horns present only as frontal apophyses covered with integument; the giraffes or camelopards. The family contains but one living species, the giraffe. Also Camelopardidæ, Camelopardalidæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• proper noun The natural family of mammals including the giraffes.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• proper noun A taxonomic family within the suborder Ruminantia — the giraffe and okapi.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun giraffes