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stirp

stirp noun: a line descended from a single ancestor.

Noun

stirp (plural stirps or stirpes)

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

Forms of stirp

pluralstirps
pluralstirpes

Origin of stirp

Back-formation from stirps.

Questions about stirp

What does stirp mean?
Stirp means a line descended from a single ancestor.
What part of speech is stirp?
Stirp is a noun.
What is the plural of stirp?
The plural of stirp is stirps.

Words near stirp in the dictionary

  1. Stirnerist
  2. Stirnerists
  3. Stirnweis
  4. Stirnweises
  5. stirocainide
  6. stirp
  7. stirpes
  8. stirpicult
  9. stirpicults
  10. stirpicultural
  11. stirpiculture

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