Definition of Stirps. Meaning of Stirps. Synonyms of Stirps

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Definition of Stirps

Stirps
Stirps Stirps, n.; pl. Stirpes. [L., stem, stock.] 1. (Law) Stock; race; family. --Blackstone. 2. (Bot.) A race, or a fixed and permanent variety.
Stirp
Stirp Stirp, n. [L. stirps, stirpis.] Stock; race; family. [Obs.] --Bacon.

Meaning of Stirps from wikipedia

- branch of gens, sometimes identified by a distinct cognomen, was called a stirps (pl.: stirpes). The gens was an important social structure at Rome and throughout...
- is in contrast to a per stirpes division, in which each branch (Latin: stirps, pl.: stirpes) of the inheriting family inherits an equal share of the estate...
- Astraea stirps is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails. This species occurred in New...
- perfections within the species. Noyes derived stirpiculture from the Latin word "stirps", which means "stock, stem, or root" (Carden). It has been claimed that...
- believe with great pride that they are of Arabian ancestry, and trace their stirp to Muhammad's lineage of Quraysh and those of his companions. Although they...
- nom. superfl. Lib**** Colebr. in Asiat. Res. 9: 382 (1807), not validly publ. Ploesslia Endl. in S.L.Endlicher & E.Fenzl, Nov. Stirp. Dec.: 38 (1839)...
- obtained the consulship in 157 BC; but the most famous descendant of this stirps is Gaius Julius Caesar, a general who conquered Gaul and became the undisputed...
- referred to the Staufer as of the "royal lineage of the Waiblingens" (regia stirps Waiblingensium). The exact connection between the family and Waiblingen...
- nowadays mainly part of Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum. Up to 1665 a stirps of the Habsburg dynasty ruled in Innsbruck with an independent court. In...
-  autumnalis and G. oregonensis are in stirps Autumnalis, while G. unicolor, G. marginata, and G. venenata are in stirps Marginata. Autumnalis species are...