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