Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A line of descendants of common ancestry; stock.
- noun Law A person from whom a family is descended.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Race; lineage; family; in law, the person from whom a family is descended. See
per stirpes , under per. - noun In zoology, a classificatory group of uncertain rank and no fixed position, by MacLeay made intermediate between a family and a tribe; a superfamily. Compare
group , section, cohort, and phalanx. - noun In botany, a race or permanent variety.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) Stock; race; family.
- noun (Bot.) A race, or a fixed and permanent variety.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
branch of a family. - noun A progenitor of a branch of a family.
- noun zoology, botany A superfamily of animals or plants.
- noun Plural form of
stirp .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Weldon's extensive comparative field work on variation in populations of the common shore crab Carcinus moenas in Plymouth, England, and Naples, Italy, resulted in a series of landmark studies between 1893 and 1898, in which the two utilized Pearson's statistical methods to develop a new way of analyzing the inheritance of variation that made no a priori commitment to the causal agency of germ plasms, “stirps,” or pangens
Evolution Sloan, Phillip 2008
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Agricolae manu vulta stirps tam diuturna, quam quae poetae, versu seminari potest, no plant can grow so long as that which is ingenio sata, set and manured by those ever-living wits.
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August 31st, 2006 at 1: 36 am tooth whitening stirps says: tooth whitening stirps
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But for democracies, they need it not; and they are commonly more quiet, and less subject to sedition, than where there are stirps of nobles.
The Essays 2007
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Etymology: Latin exstirpatus, past participle of exstirpare, from ex - + stirp -, stirps trunk, root -- more at TORPID
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Etymology: Latin exstirpatus, past participle of exstirpare, from ex - + stirp -, stirps trunk, root -- more at TORPID
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Etymology: Latin exstirpatus, past participle of exstirpare, from ex - + stirp -, stirps trunk, root -- more at TORPID
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Etymology: Latin exstirpatus, past participle of exstirpare, from ex - + stirp -, stirps trunk, root -- more at TORPID
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Etymology: Latin exstirpatus, past participle of exstirpare, from ex - + stirp -, stirps trunk, root -- more at TORPID
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Etymology: Latin exstirpatus, past participle of exstirpare, from ex - + stirp -, stirps trunk, root -- more at TORPID
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