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German
Etymology
From Latin tribus (“tribe”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Tribus f (genitive Tribus, plural Triben)
- (taxonomy, obsolete) A taxonomic rank above family.
1883, Friedrich Moritz Brauer, Die Zweiflügler des Kaiserlichen Museums zu Wien, volume 3, page 2:So war ich durch den Bau des Chitinskeletes der Unterlippe der Larven genöthigt, die beiden Familien Empidae und Dolichopoda von Schiner's Orthoceren zu trennen und auch aus meiner Tribus Platygenya auszuscheiden und für beide die Tribus Orthogenya aufzustellen.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (taxonomy) Tribe (a rank between genus and subfamily)
Declension