Meaning & use
Stirp
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A branch or line of a family; a lineage or stock of descendants.
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The estate was to be divided among the stirps of the founder's three children.
Genealogists traced each stirp back to a common ancestor in the 1600s.
A note on using this word
Rare outside legal and genealogical contexts, where the related Latin phrase 'per stirpes' describes inheritance divided by family branch rather than by individual.
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