Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the classificatory grade of or characterizing a subtribe.
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Examples
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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
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So, too, are the subtribal names enumerated by Dorsey.
The Siouan Indians 1882
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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.
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