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stirps — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • lineage noun A line of descent traced from an ancestor; a family's ancestry or a sequence of generations.
  • stem noun The main stalk of a plant that supports leaves, flowers, or fruit.
  • stock noun The goods a shop or business keeps available to sell.

Senses

stirps is used for these senses in English:

  • lineage Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
  • rootstock (agriculture) A healthy and vigorous-rooted plant that is used in grafting, most commonly as a sound base to support a scion that bears desirable fruit in orchard culture.
  • stem A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
  • stock (by extension) Lineage; family; ancestry.

stem — full definition

  1. noun The main stalk of a plant that supports leaves, flowers, or fruit.
  2. noun A slender supporting part of an object, such as a wine glass or tobacco pipe.
  3. noun The base form of a word to which endings are added.
  4. verb To originate or arise from something.
  5. verb To stop or hold back the flow or spread of something.

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