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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)n Merriam Webster'snoun (plural stemmata) Etymology: Latin, wreath, pedigree (from the wreaths placed on ancestral images), from Greek, wreath, from stephein to crown, enwreathe Date: 1826 Oxford Reference Dictionaryn. (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 DictionaryStemma 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. |