Noun: stemma (stemmata) ste-mu
- A tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work
"The scholar created a stemma to illustrate the relationships between different versions of the ancient text"
- The hereditary derivation of an individual
"his entire stemma has been warriors";
- lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stock
- An eye having a single lens
"Many insects have both compound eyes and stemmata";
- simple eye, ocellus
Derived forms: stemmata
Type of: eye, family tree, genealogy, oculus [rare], optic, tree, tree diagram
Encyclopedia: Stemma