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STEMMA
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Irregular inflected form: stemmata
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An eye having a single lens
Synonyms:
ocellus; simple eye; stemma
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("stemma" is a kind of...):
eye; oculus; optic (the organ of sight)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stemma"):
ommatidium (any of the numerous small cone-shaped eyes that make up the compound eyes of some arthropods)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The descendants of one individual
Example:
his entire lineage has been warriors
Synonyms:
ancestry; blood; blood line; bloodline; descent; line; line of descent; lineage; origin; parentage; pedigree; stemma; stock
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("stemma" is a kind of...):
family tree; genealogy (successive generations of kin)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stemma"):
family; family line; folk; kinfolk; kinsfolk; phratry; sept (people descended from a common ancestor)
side (a family line of descent)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("stemma" is a kind of...):
tree; tree diagram (a figure that branches from a single root)
