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tribe (s) (noun), tribes (pl)
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tribu-, trib-
(Latin: to assign, to allot, to bestow, to give, to grant; from tribe, to give out among the tribes was tribuere which is the source of many of the words located in this unit)
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tribe (s) (noun), tribes (pl)
The taxonomic category between genus and subfamily: hence, a set of similar genera of common phylogenetic origin: A tribe is considered to be a taxonomic group, classified to be below a family (or subfamily) and above a genus and normally consists of many genera.
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English words from Algonquian
(the language of a group of American Indian tribes that lived in the valleys of the Ottawa River and of the northern tributaries of the St. Lawrence River)
Latin and Greek Words Entering the English Language
(the first Latin words to find their way into the English language owe their adoption to the early contact between the Roman and the Germanic tribes on the European continent and Greek came with Latin and French while others were borrowed directly; especially, in the fields of science and technology)