The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stirpes
Stirps \Stirps\, n.; pl. Stirpes. [L., stem, stock.]
(Law) Stock; race; family.
--Blackstone.(Bot.) A race, or a fixed and permanent variety.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stirpes
plural of stirps, Latin, literally "stem, stalk, trunk of a plant," figuratively "scion, offspring, descendant; source, origin, foundation, beginning." Hence stirpiculture "breeding of special stocks or strains."
Wiktionary
stirpes
n. (context legal English) branches, lines of descent, used in the legal expression '''per stirpes'''. (plural of stirps English)
WordNet
stirpes
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Usage examples of "stirpes".
Code this and per stirpes that rescuing them from the furnace with the rest of Father's papers while he sat here ready to burn down the house with those vile Picayunes.