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Stirp

Stirp \Stirp\, n. [L. stirps, stirpis.] Stock; race; family. [Obs.]
--Bacon.

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stirp

n. (context biology anthropology English) A line descended from a single ancestor.

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Scores of armbanded marshals were herding them behind a roped line away from the stirp itself, but even the marshals were looking up half the time in the hope of catching a glimpse of the shuttle through the clouds.