Subtribe
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Subtribe is a noun meaning A tribe making up part of a larger tribe.
Meaning
A tribe making up part of a larger tribe.
More Meanings
- (taxonomy) A taxonomic category ranking below tribe.
Example Sentences
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.
Brieger and his associates first divide the subtribe Epidendrinae […] into what could be called series, distinguishing four such series in the subtribe.
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).
Word Forms
- subtribes
Synonyms for subtribe
Depending on context, synonyms include subtribus.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include undertribe, tribe, tribespeople, subethnicity, tribelet, tribeswoman.
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