plural of stirps / plural of stirp

(law) branches, lines of descent, used in the legal expression per stirpes.

A branch of a family. / A progenitor of a branch of a family. / (zoology, botany) A superfamily of animals or plants.

(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.

plural of stirp

(law) A method of distributing an estate to the descendants of a deceased legatee in which the estate is divided equally among the branches of a family, without regard to differing numbers of people in different branches.