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Subtribe

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A tribe making up part of a larger tribe.

    "This leaves for consideration of this group of small tribes, or subtribes, so far as mapped by the writer quoted, the Teule, Cazcan, and Tecuexe."

  2. 2
    A taxonomic category ranking below tribe.

    "The tempo of evolution in South American hamsters was very rapid – in the course of the Pliocene and Anthropocene 40 genera were formed here, at which time a series of them attained the level of tribe and subtribe (Oxymycteri, Phyllotiini, Ichthyomyini)."

Etymology

From sub- + tribe. In taxonomy, a semantic loan from New Latin subtribus.

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