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Stemma

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A family tree or recorded genealogy.

    "Where so few dates are known, an authoritative stemma is out of the question"

  2. 2
    an eye having a single lens wordnet
  3. 3
    In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts.
  4. 4
    the hereditary derivation of an individual wordnet
  5. 5
    One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods.
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  1. 6
    a tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stemma, from Ancient Greek στέμμα (stémma).

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