Crossword clues for subtribe
subtribe
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subtribe \Sub"tribe`\, n. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rank than a tribe.
Wiktionary
n. (context taxonomy English) A taxonomic category ranking below tribe.
Usage examples of "subtribe".
A village would be inhabited by a gau, an agglomeration of several sibja groups, combined into a subtribe and headed by a hereditary petty chieftain.
Other tribes are composed of phratries, and each subtribe or phratry comprises a number of gentes.
Mzilikazi, son of Mashobane of the Kumalo subtribe of Zulu, and he was to become the first Matabele.
Whose Eyes See More had been until very recently the wise man, or shaman, to a subtribe of the Mescalero Apaches, who lived among the jagged red canyons of the land that had once been called New Mexico.
Parta had held an equal authority with her husband, and at his death remained sole head of the subtribe, and in order to ensure its obedience in the future, Ostorius had insisted that her only son Beric, at that time a boy of eleven, should be handed over to them as a hostage.
The honour of the victories we won was yours, and though but a small subtribe, the name of the Sarci rang through Britain as that of the bravest in the land.
The Great Council of Tenoka subtribes had granted their friends from far-off Earth theoretically limited rights to occupy the Stem area, and had in exchange accepted a mountain of trade goods and the permanent right of free medical care for any Tenoka who could reach one of the new hospitals in the Stem.
A chief of one of the northern subtribes of the Iceni had driven through on his chariot and had told the headman of the hamlet that he had been one of the few who had accompanied Boadicea in her flight.
They imply a rather sparsely settled country, occupied by a comparatively small number of tribes and subtribes, moving from place to place under the influence of various motives, some of which we know, others we can only surmise.
A chief of one of the northern subtribes of the Iceni had driven through on his chariot and had told the headman of the hamlet that he had been one of the few who had accompanied Boadicea in her flight.
But the majority of the ragtag force was made up of wallabies and kangaroos representing more than a dozen subtribes.