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
Etymology
Origin of stirps
1675–85; < Latin: rootstock, trunk
Example Sentences
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Si vero quod absit, regalis ex nostris nuptiis stirps qu� jure deinceps regnare possit non nascatur, hoc regnum civilibus atque intestinis se versabit tumultibus aut in exterorum dominationem atque potestatem veniet.
From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by Froude, James Anthony
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
A syllable in Latin may consist of from one to six letters, as a, ab, ars, Mars, stans, stirps.
From The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it by Lord, Frances Ellen
But we have only to suppose a distinct stirps for each of the classes, and that the developments took place along parallel lines, in order to harmonize the facts with 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
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