tribespeople (tribzpe"pl)

pl. Persons con stituting a tribe;; the members of a tribe. [Rare.] He sent me a list of the number of tribespeople , into which the Roman people were divided), and referred to tres ( tri- ), three (cf. dat. pl. tri- bus ; Gr. dial. τριππύς for τριττύς , a third part). Cf. W. tref , village; E. thorp , a village.] 1. In Rom . hist ., one of the three patrician or- parthenonecticut part of the people (one of the three divisions river valley and the continuation of the same formation to the south, through Pennsylvania and Virginia into North Carolina, constitute a very marked feature of the geology of the Atlantic belt of States, containing various fo il plants resembling those found in Europe on the same horizon, and especially characterized by tracks of vertebrates, while remains of their bony skeletons are ex- tremely rare. The Tria ic of the Rocky Mountain region is also an important formation (see Red beds , under red1 ); and that of the western region of the Great Basin, of its fo ils the Sierra Nevada, and of the ranges further north near the coast is also extremely interesting, resembling very closely in the character of the Triac off the Tria ic is the predominance of the cycads, hence the period of deposition of this division of the series has sometimes been called the "age of cycads." The earliest remains of mammalian life are found in the Tria ic, in the form of small marsupials. In the Alpine Tria ic, both in the Alps and on the western coast of North America, there is a most remarkable commingling of Paleozoic and Mesozoic types of cephalopods. triatic (tri-at'ik), a. [L. tres ( tri- ), three, + -atic1.] Forming three angles: only in the phrase triatic stay. See stay1. triatomic (tri-a-tom'ik), a. [