suprafamilial

Adjective

suprafamilial (not comparable)

1. Of a level of society higher than family.
   • All pastoral and agro-pastoral societies have some form of suprafamilial and often supralocal political structure, and all are marked by some form of social inequality.1988, D. Blair Gibson, M.N. Geselowitz, Tribe and Polity in Late Prehistoric Europe, Springer, Softcover reprint, page 47
   • The social group of interest when historians speak of "communes" in rural Russia is any suprafamilial one that is linked to the territory of a village or sometimes a parish community.2002, Margaret L. Paxson, “Social Organization and the Metaphysics of Exchange”, in David J. O'Brien, Stephen K. Wegren, editors, Rural Reform in Post-Soviet Russia, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, page...
2. Whose taxonomic level is higher than family.
   • A suprafamilial name revised from its previously published rank with accompanying change of termination (which may or may not be intended to signalize the change of rank) is recorded as nom. transl et correct.1981, Raymond Cecil Moore, Curt Teichert, editors, Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, volumes 1-2, Geological Society of America, page xxiii
   • In the final version of this classification (Cushman, 1948), the number of families (without any suprafamilial groupings) was 50.2002, Barun K. Sen Gupta, “2: Systematics of modern Foraminifera”, in Barun K. Sen Gupta, editor, Modern Foraminifera, Springer (Kluwer Academic), page 11