subtribe


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sub·tribe

 (sŭb′trīb′)
n.
A subdivision of a tribe.
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subtribe

(ˈsʌbˌtraɪb)
n
(Anthropology & Ethnology) tribe within a larger tribe
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It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call "war" and "commerce." These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.
The Meru also brought Miraa that was shared among guests to show that they are married in line with the Igembe subtribe tradition.
Recently, phylogenetic analyses of Lychnophorinae using morphological and molecular data (Loeuille et al., 2015a, b), indicated that this subtribe is monophyletic when it includes the Centratherinae and Sipolisiinae subtribes and small Blanchetia and Gorceixia genera, furthermore, putative chemical synapomorphies reinforce this idea (Lusa et al., 2017).
Susanna, Genus Artemisa and its allies, phylogeny of the subtribe Artemisiinae (Asteraceae, Anthemadea) based on nucleotide sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacers (ITS).
Their great external similarity led Johnston (1956) to group the first three of these genera (Veseyacris was described later), together with Segellia Karsch, 1891, Auloserpusia Rehn, 1914, Pteropera Karsch, 1891, Coenona Karsch, 1896 and Serpusilla Ramme, 1931 in a subtribe Serpusiae.
Revision of the New World cycad weevils of the subtribe Allocorynina, with description of two new genera and three new subgenera (Coleoptera: Belidae: Oxycoryninae).
Sirajuddin Haqqani belongs to the Sultankhel clan of the Prangai subtribe, which is a part of the Mezi subtribe of the Zadran.