stirps
Americannoun
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a stock; family or branch of a family; line of descent.
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Law. a person from whom a family is descended.
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Biology Now Rare. a family, superfamily, or permanent variety.
noun
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genealogy a line of descendants from an ancestor; stock or strain
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botany a race or variety, esp one in which the characters are maintained by cultivation
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of stirps
1675–85; < Latin: rootstock, trunk
Example Sentences
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He was a Jew and circumcised: for they have some few stirps of Jews yet remaining among them, whom they leave to their own religion.
From New Atlantis by Bacon, Francis
The idea of a distinct stirps or germ for each great class of animals and plants seems to me to destroy an essential feature of the hypothesis.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward
He was a Jew and circumcised; for they have some few stirps of Jews yet remaining among them, whom they leave to their own religion.
From Ideal Commonwealths by More, Thomas, Sir, Saint
These are called “individualizing characteristics,” “notae individuantes,” the familiar scholastic list of them being “forma, figura, locus, tempus, stirps, patria, nomen,” with manifest reference to the individual “man”.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
And here we may bring in the 'stock'-dove, as being the 'stock' or stirps of the domestic kinds.
From On the Study of Words by Trench, Richard Chenevix
I can't crowd out others as desirable as he for the sake of carrying all of his stirpes.
From The Second Deluge by Serviss, Garrett Putman
Indeed we need not care whether the division per stirpes or per capita, our share is not the less in either case.
From Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms by Matthews, Brander
But the division per stirpes was not maintained throughout.
From On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay by Seebohm, Hugh E. (Hugh Exton)
These became modified into two stirpes: A, that of the worms; and B, that of the sponges.
From Critiques and Addresses by Huxley, Thomas Henry
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