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From sub- +‎ tribe. In taxonomy, after New Latin subtribus.

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subtribe (plural subtribes)

  1. A tribe making up part of a larger tribe.
    • 1911, Cyrus Thomas, Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America[1]:
      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. (taxonomy) A taxonomic category ranking below tribe.
    • 1960, Doklady. Biological Sciences Sections, volumes 132–135, Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Biological Sciences, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 640, column 2:
      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).
    • 1993, Carl L. Withner, The Cattleyas and Their Relatives: A Book in Six Parts:
      Brieger and his associates first divide the subtribe Epidendrinae [] into what could be called series, distinguishing four such series in the subtribe.

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