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Definition of Stirps
1. n. Stock; race; family.
Definition of Stirps
1. Noun. A branch of a family. ¹
2. Noun. A progenitor of a branch of a family. ¹
3. Noun. (zoology botany) A superfamily of animals or plants. ¹
4. Noun. (plural of stirp) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stirps
1. a family or branch of a family [n STIRPES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stirps
Literary usage of Stirps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"... stirps. As I have just stated, the super- families, about which one feels the
... stirps. safe ground in making the following associations :— As matters ..."
2. A Concise Treatise on the Construction of Wills by Francis Vaughan Hawkins, John Sword, Frederick Moore Leonard (1885)
"Whether the issue must survive the stirps, or child through whom they claim; and 2.
Whether the issue must be living at the period of distribution, ..."
3. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1875)
"The family is a magnified coitus, and the stirps bears the same relation to ...
Even were the stirps homogenous, they could not run with modern families or ..."
4. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1899)
"... stirps. Their larvae exhibit a very wide range of variation, some possessing
quite simple tubercles, with a single seta, and having tubercles, i, ..."
5. Reports of Scotch Appeals in the House of Lords A. D. 1851 to 1873: With by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1895)
"К being a preference of the male issue descending from that stirps over the
female, but subject Itki: preference, a simple gift first to the male issue of ..."
6. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1874)
"Partly covering the Lemoniada.' of modern authors. The 4th stirps ... The <;th
stirps, Oreades, thus : " The palpi pretty roughly haired ; the antennae ..."
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