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stirpes

stirpes is the plural of stirps.

stirpes is the plural of stirp.

Meaning of stirps

Noun

stirps (plural stirpes)

  1. A branch of a family.
  2. A progenitor of a branch of a family.
  3. A superfamily of animals or plants.

Meaning of stirp

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.

Noun

stirpes pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) branches, lines of descent, used in the legal expression per stirpes.

Origin of stirpes

From Latin stirpēs, a plural and a collateral form of stirps (“rootstock”).

Phrases with stirpes

Questions about stirpes

What does stirpes mean?
Stirpes means branches, lines of descent, used in the legal expression per stirpes.
What is stirpes the plural of?
Stirpes is the plural of stirps.
What part of speech is stirpes?
Stirpes is a noun.

Words near stirpes in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stirpes (page history and authors); stirps (page history and authors); stirp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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