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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. a tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work;

2. the descendants of one individual;
- Example: "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]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stemma \Stem"ma\, n.; pl. Stemmata. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, pl. ?, a garland or chaplet.] (Zool.) (a) One of the ocelli of an insect. See Ocellus. (b) One of the facets of a compound eye of any arthropod. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

stemma 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]