suprafamilial adjective2 •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 •Whose taxonomic level is higher than family.In the final version of this classification (Cushman, 1948), the number of families (without any suprafamilial groupings) was 50. — 2002
