stirp

English

Etymology

Back-formation from stirps.

Noun

stirp (plural stirps or stirpes)

(biology, anthropology) A line descended from a single ancestor.
(systematics) A line descending from a single extant ancestor, a lineage descending from a supergenerative species.

Anagrams

TRIPS, spirt, sprit, strip, trips

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