tribe

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: tribe

1	n	a social division of (usually preliterate) people
2	n	(biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: tribe

Examples:: Bronte sisters
a 19th century family of three sisters who all wrote novels; Marx Brothers
a family of United States comedians consisting of four brothers with an anarchic sense of humor

Types:: show 10 types...; hide 10 types...; mishpachah, mishpocha
(Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends); family, family unit
primary social group; parents and children; folks
your parents; family tree, genealogy
successive generations of kin; totem
a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object; Tribes of Israel, Twelve Tribes of Israel
twelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob; couple, match, mates
a pair of people who live together; man and wife, marriage, married couple
two people who are married to each other; ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock
the descendants of one individual; Lost Tribes
the ten Tribes of Israel that were deported into captivity in Assyria around 720 BC (leaving only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin)

Types:: Bovini, tribe Bovini
term not used technically; essentially coextensive with genus Bos; Bambuseae, tribe Bambuseae
bamboos

Type of:: taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group
animal or plant group having natural relations

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