stirps
Meaning
- A branch of a family.
- A progenitor of a branch of a family.
- A superfamily of animals or plants.
Synonyms
stock of a family
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin stirps (“rootstock, stem”).
New
stirp
- A line descended from a single ancestor.
- A line descending from a single extant ancestor, a lineage descending from a supergenerative species.
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