stirps

Meaning

  1. A branch of a family.
  2. A progenitor of a branch of a family.
  3. A superfamily of animals or plants.

Synonyms

stock of a family

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stirps (“rootstock, stem”).

New
stirp

  1. A line descended from a single ancestor.
  2. A line descending from a single extant ancestor, a lineage descending from a supergenerative species.

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