Chiefly Zool. and Bot. [SUB- 7 b.] A subdivision of a tribe.

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1836–9.  Todd’s Cycl. Anat., II. 860/1. The second sub-tribe, Hydradephaga, includes the predaceous water-beetles.

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1857.  [see SUBCLASS].

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1859.  R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., XXIX. 84. The Wazaramo number many sub-tribes, the principal of which are the Wákámbá.

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1870.  Hooker, Stud. Flora, 150. Tribe iv. Seselineæ…. Sub-tribe 2. Coriandreæ.

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  Hence Subtribual a., pertaining to a subtribe.

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1881.  Bentham, in Jrnl. Lin. Soc., XVIII. 287. The most important tribual and subtribual characters.

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