stirps

A line of descendants of common ancestry; stock.

A person from whom a family is descended.

Race; lineage; family; in law, the person from whom a family is descended. See per stirpes, under per.

In zoology, a classificatory group of uncertain rank and no fixed position, by MacLeay made intermediate between a family and a tribe; a superfamily. Compare group, section, cohort, and phalanx.

In botany, a race or permanent variety.

Stock; race; family.

A race, or a fixed and permanent variety.

A branch of a family.

A progenitor of a branch of a family.

A superfamily of animals or plants.