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stirp

[ sturp ]
/ stÉœrp /
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noun Anthropology.
a line of descendants from a common ancestor.
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Origin of stirp

1495–1505; <Latin stirp-, stem of stirpsstirps

Words nearby stirp

stirk, Stirling, Stirling engine, Stirling's formula, Stirlingshire, stirp, stirpiculture, stirps, stirrer, stirring, stirrup
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Words related to stirp

ancestry, genetics, lineage, clan, descent, genealogy, origin, pedigree, derivation, extraction, generation, heredity, history, line, parentage, stemma, stock, strain, birth, blood

How to use stirp in a sentence

  • The continuity of germ plasm (stirp of Galton), like Darwins selection, is a fact, not a theory.

    Darwinism and Race Progress|John Berry Haycraft

  • For figures or descriptions of four-leaved shamrocks the reader is referred to Lobel, 'Stirp.

    Vegetable Teratology|Maxwell T. Masters

  • Dogging at a theory of heredity which will reconcile Darwin's gemmules, Weismann's germ-plasm, and Galton's stirp.

    Phases of an Inferior Planet|Ellen Glasgow
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