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tribal history

tribal history noun: phylogeny.

Noun

tribal history (countable and uncountable, plural tribal histories)

  1. (historical, rare, theory of recapitulation) Phylogeny.
    Antonyms:
    germ history

Antonyms of tribal history

Forms of tribal history

pluraltribal histories

Origin of tribal history

An overly literal learned borrowing from German Stammesgeschichte; ordinarily, Stamm would only be translated as tribe when used in its ethnographic sense.

Questions about tribal history

What does tribal history mean?
Tribal history means phylogeny.
What part of speech is tribal history?
Tribal history is a noun.
What is the plural of tribal history?
The plural of tribal history is tribal histories.

Words near tribal history in the dictionary

  1. tribady
  2. tribal
  3. tribal chief
  4. tribal chiefs
  5. tribal histories
  6. tribal history
  7. tribal house
  8. tribal tattoo
  9. tribal tattoos
  10. tribalesque
  11. tribalisation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tribal history (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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