Suprafamilial

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a level of society higher than family. not-comparable

    "1988, D. Blair Gibson, M.N. Geselowitz, Tribe and Polity in Late Prehistoric Europe, Springer, Softcover reprint, page 47, All pastoral and agro-pastoral societies have some form of suprafamilial and often supralocal political structure, and all are marked by some form of social inequality."

  2. 2
    Whose taxonomic level is higher than family. not-comparable

    "A suprafamilial name revised from its previously published rank with accompanying change of termination (which may or may not be intended to signalize the change of rank) is recorded as nom. transl et correct."

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"1988, D. Blair Gibson, M.N. Geselowitz, Tribe and Polity in Late Prehistoric Europe, Springer, Softcover reprint, page 47, All pastoral and agro-pastoral societies have some form of suprafamilial and often supralocal political structure, and all are marked by some form of social inequality."

Etymology

From supra- + familial.

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