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stirps

  [sturps] ,
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–noun, plural stir⋅pes  [stur-peez] .
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.
Origin:
1675–85; < L: rootstock, trunk

stirp

  [sturp] ,
–noun Anthropology.
a line of descendants from a common ancestor.
Origin:
1495–1505; < L stirp-, s. of stirps stirps
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stirps   (stûrps)   
n.   pl. stir·pes (stûr'pēz)

  1. A line of descendants of common ancestry; stock.

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


[Latin, stem, lineage.]
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