subtribe

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tribe making up part of a larger tribe.
    — This leaves for consideration of this group of small tribes, or subtribes, so far as mapped by the writer quoted, the Teule, Cazcan, and Tecuexe.
  2. A taxonomic category ranking below tribe.
    — The tempo of evolution in South American hamsters was very rapid – in the course of the Pliocene and Anthropocene 40 genera were formed here, at which time a series of them attained the level of tribe and subtribe (Oxymycteri, Phyllotiini, Ichthyomyini).

词形变化

subtribes plural

词源

From sub- + tribe. In taxonomy, a semantic loan from New Latin subtribus.
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