Lineage vs Tribe - What's the difference?
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Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
* {{quote-news
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, date=July 19
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, title=Sticks insects survive one million years without sex
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(advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.
* 1927 , William Leonard Crum, Advertising Fluctuations, Seasonal and Cyclical
A socially, ethnically, and politically cohesive group of people.
(anthropology) A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.
The collective noun for various animals.
(taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
(stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.
* Archbishop Nicolson
As nouns the difference between lineage and tribe
is that lineage is descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage while tribe is a socially, ethnically, and politically cohesive group of people.As a verb tribe is
to distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.lineage
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Alternative forms
* linageNoun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction. }}
- Total newspaper advertising lineage in the North Atlantic region
See also
* genealogyReferences
* *tribe
English
(wikipedia tribe)Noun
(en noun)- the Duchess tribe of shorthorns
Derived terms
* tribal * tribeletSee also
* ethnic *Verb
(trib)- Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed .