stirps
a stock; family or branch of a family; line of descent.
Law. a person from whom a family is descended.
Biology Now Rare. a family, superfamily, or permanent variety.
Origin of stirps
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How to use stirps in a sentence
Some took the additional name from the stirps instead of from the gns, that is, from the cognmen instead of from the nmen.
The Private Life of the Romans | Harold Whetstone JohnstonThe principal characters of the story, belonging to the stirps Muciana, are purely imaginary.
Quintus Claudius, Volume 1 of 2 | Ernst EcksteinAnimus est ingeneratus Deo, ex quo vere vel agnatio nobis cum cœlestibus, vel genus vel stirps appellari potest.
A Christian Directory (Volume 1 of 4) | Richard BaxterAmong the Iroquois descent was never reckoned through the male line, the stirps being always a woman.
The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha | Ellen H. WalworthTransit etiam in arborem in quibusdam regionibus Ricinus, alibi annua stirps.
Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution | Agnes Arber
British Dictionary definitions for stirps
/ (stɜːps) /
genealogy a line of descendants from an ancestor; stock or strain
botany a race or variety, esp one in which the characters are maintained by cultivation
Origin of stirps
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