stirps /stûrps/, also stirp /stûrp/

1. (a person and his or her descendants forming) a branch of a family (esp law)
2. Pedigree
3. A category in biological classification, eg (zoology) a superfamily, family or subfamily, or (botany) a rootstock that retains characteristics in cultivation

stirpˈiculture noun

Selective breeding

• lapidated
• lapidates
• lapidating
• lapidation
• lapidations
• lapideous
• lapidescence
• lapidescences
• lapidescent
• lapidicolous
• lapidific
• lapidification
• lapidifications
• lapidified
• lapidifies
• lapidify
• lapidifying
• lapilli
• lapilliform
• lapis
• lapises
• lapis lazuli
• lapis lazuli blue
• lapis lazuli ware
• Lapith