English Explanatory Dictionary

stirp

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

stirp stirps stirpes

Etymology

Back-formation from stirps.

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