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tribe - English dictionary definition

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  1. Tribe  A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob.
  2. Tribe  A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.
  3. Tribe  A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe.
  4. Tribe  A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of Athens was divided into ten tribes.
  5. Tribe  A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.
  6. Tribe  To distribute into tribes or classes.
  7. tribe  group of people related by blood or marriage
  8. tribe Bambuseae  bamboos
  9. tribe Bovini  term not used technically; essentially coextensive with genus Bos
  10. tribe Bubalus  in some classification systems included in genus Bos; water buffaloes