stirps

American  

[sturps] / stɜrps /

noun

plural

stirpes

1. a stock; family or branch of a family; line of descent.

2. Law. a person from whom a family is descended.

3. Biology Now Rare. a family, superfamily, or permanent variety.

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stirps British  

/ stɜːps /

noun

1. genealogy a line of descendants from an ancestor; stock or strain

2. botany a race or variety, esp one in which the characters are maintained by cultivation

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Etymology

Origin of stirps

1675–85; < Latin: rootstock, trunk

Example Sentences

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”.

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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.

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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.

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Stirps se dividit in Ramos, 6.

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Stirps: a stock or stem: a division of classification similar to super-family: not used at present.

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Related Words

• clan
• descent
• genealogy
• origin
• pedigree