Stirps

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stirps \Stirps\, n.; pl. {Stirpes}. [L., stem, stock.]
     1. (Law) Stock; race; family. --Blackstone.
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     2. (Bot.) A race, or a fixed and permanent variety.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "stirps":
     affiliation, animal kingdom, apparentation, birth, blood,
     bloodline, branch, breed, brood, clan, class, common ancestry,
     consanguinity, deme, derivation, descent, direct line,
     distaff side, extraction, family, female line, filiation, folk,
     gens, house, kind, line, line of descent, lineage, male line,
     matriclan, nation, order, patriclan, people, phratry, phyle,
     phylum, plant kingdom, race, seed, sept, side, spear side, species,
     spindle side, stem, stock, strain, succession, sword side, totem,
     tribe