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Stock or lineage
Answer for the clue "Stock or lineage ", 5 letters:
stirp
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Word definitions for stirp in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stirp \Stirp\, n. [L. stirps, stirpis.] Stock; race; family. [Obs.] --Bacon.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context biology anthropology English) A line descended from a single ancestor.
Usage examples of stirp.
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.