stirp

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Galton's "stirp" is Weismann's "germ-plasm."

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  1. Stock; race; family. So is she spronge of noble stirp and high. Court of Love, l. 16. Democracies … are commonly more quiet, and less subject to sedition, than where there are stirps of nobles. Bacon, Nobility (ed. 1887).

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  1. from Middle English stirpe, from Latin stirps, a stock, root, race.
 

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