| tribe | To distribute into tribes or classes. "Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed." (Abp. Nicolson) 1. A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob. "The Lion of the tribe of Juda." "A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe." (Shak) 2. <botany> A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals. By many recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a group of animals or plants intermediate between order and genus. 3. A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe. 4. A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of Athens was divided into ten tribes. 5. A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns. Origin: L. Tribus, originally, a third part of the Roman people, afterwards, a division of the people, a tribe; of uncertain origin: cf. F. Tribu. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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a social division of (usually preliterate) people a federation (as of American Indians) (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily kin: group of people related by blood or marriage
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(tribe) (tr[imacr]b) a taxonomic category subordinate to a family (or subfamily) and superior to a genus (or subtribe).
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Viewed historically or developmentally, a tribe consists of a social formation existing before the development of, or outside of, states. Many people use the term to refer to any non-Western or indigenous society. Some social scientists use the term to refer to societies organized largely on the basis of kinship, especially corporate descent groups (see clan and lineage). ...
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A political organization with no central leader but in which the subunits may make collective decisions about the entire group.
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(TRYBE) -- A group of closely related genera, as Cattleya tribe.
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| tribe | group of people related by blood or marriage |
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| tribe | (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily |
| tribe | a federation (as of American Indians) |
| tribe | a social division of (usually preliterate) people |
| tribe | bamboos |
| tribe | term not used technically |
| tribe | in some classification systems included in genus Bos |
| tribe | Cape buffalo |
| tribe | twelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob |
| tribe | someone who lives in a tribe |
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