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noun Anthropology.
a line of descendants from a common ancestor.
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —n , pl stirpes | |
| 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 |
| [C17: from Latin: root, family origin] | |
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