stirp

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English

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Etymology

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Back-formation from stirps.

Noun

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stirp (plural stirps or stirpes)

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

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