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STEMMA (stemmata)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stemma mean? 

STEMMA (noun)
  The noun STEMMA has 3 senses:

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

2. the descendants of one individualplay

3. an eye having a single lensplay

  Familiarity information: STEMMA used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


STEMMA (noun)


Sense 1

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)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The descendants of one individual

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

ancestry; blood; blood line; bloodline; descent; line; line of descent; lineage; origin; parentage; pedigree; stemma; stock

Context example:

his entire lineage has been warriors

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:

An eye having a single lens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

ocellus; simple eye; stemma

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)


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