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stirp

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

1495–1505; < Latin stirp-, stem of stirps stirps
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Examples from the Web for stirp

Historical Examples

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

    Vegetable Teratology

    Maxwell T. Masters

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

    Darwinism and Race Progress

    John Berry Haycraft

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