tribal
Based on or organized according to tribes.
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Based on or organized according to tribes.
‘What has he done?’ ‘Oh, killed a few natives. That wouldn’t count so much if it was all ‘tribal’; but he’s ‘gone cheeky’ and threatens wholesale murder. My job is to grab him before he slaughters more.’
“The Trump administration is evicting bison herds from federal grasslands in Montana, siding with ranchers and Republican leaders over environmentalists and tribal leaders. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/us/politics/trump-buffalos-montana.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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Of or relating to tribes.
social order through tribal law
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(historical, biology, theory of recapitulation, rare) Phylogenic.
a tribal society
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