phratry / ˈfreɪ tri /

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phratry 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural phra·tries.

  1. a grouping of clans or other social units within a tribe.
  2. a subdivision of a phyle.

更多phratry例句

  1. A man of the Emu phratry marries a woman of the Kangaroo phratry, and to that phratry her children belong.
  2. Thus members of either phratry must be found in any casual knot or company of natives.
  3. Within each phratry there are, again, kinships also known by hereditary names of animals or plants.
  4. In phratry Kupathin are Ipai (male) and Kumbo (male), while the women bear the feminine forms of these names.
  5. Where totem and phratry names only exist, a man has merely to ask a woman, "What is your phratry name?"