Definitions for stirps

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stirps stirps

Spelling: [sturps]

IPA: /stɜrps/

Stirps is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in stirps (iprsst).

Definitions for stirps

noun

1. a stock; family or branch of a family; line of descent.
2. Law. a person from whom a family is descended.
3. Biology Now Rare. a family, superfamily, or permanent variety.
4. a line of descendants from a common ancestor.

Origin of stirps

1675-85; Latin: rootstock, trunk

Examples for stirps

The principal characters of the story, belonging to the stirps Muciana, are purely imaginary.

Some took the additional name from the stirps instead of from the gns, that is, from the cognmen instead of from the nmen.

Among the Iroquois descent was never reckoned through the male line, the stirps being always a woman.