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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work
2: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock]
3: an eye having a single lens [syn: simple eye, stemma, ocellus]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural stemmata) Etymology: Latin, wreath, pedigree (from the wreaths placed on ancestral images), from Greek, wreath, from stephein to crown, enwreathe Date: 1826 1. a simple eye present in some insects 2. a scroll (as among the ancient Romans) containing a genealogical list 3. a tree showing the relationships of the manuscripts of a literary work • stemmatic adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. stemmata) 1 a family tree; a pedigree. 2 the line of descent e.g. of variant texts of a work. 3 Zool. a simple eye; a facet of a compound eye. Etymology: L f. Gk stemma wreath f. stepho wreathe

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stemma Stem"ma, n.; pl. Stemmata. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, pl. ?, a garland or chaplet.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) One of the ocelli of an insect. See Ocellus. (b) One of the facets of a compound eye of any arthropod.