Gens a. : A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe.

Gens a. : A minor subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem.

Example:
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Taxonomy
gens, gentes, patrician, Second Edition, 2nd Ed, nomen, plebeian, branches, patrician families, praenomina, patriciate, stirpes, gentes maiores, Harper's, Dictionary, Classical Literature, Antiquities, Harry Thurston Peck.

Defination from the web:
gens (pronounced /ˈɡɛns/ or /ˈdʒɛnz/), plural gentes, referred to a family, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a stirps (plural stirpes) ...