Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of the classificatory grade of or characterizing a subtribe.

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Examples

  • A name applied to the Gonds generally, and now used as a subtribal designation to distinguish them from Raj-Gonds.

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

  • So, too, are the subtribal names enumerated by Dorsey.

    The Siouan Indians 1882

  • It is a war defined by complex intrigue, shifting alliances, mutating motivations, chronic bribery, remotely-generated civilian deaths, insuperable barriers of language and ethnic and subtribal conflicts.

    Home 2010

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