Noun stemma has 3 senses
  1. stemma - a tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work
    --1 is a kind of
    tree, tree diagram
  2. lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock - the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
    --2 is a kind of genealogy, family tree
    --2 has particulars:
     family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry; breed; side
  3. simple eye, stemma, ocellus - an eye having a single lens
    --3 is a kind of eye, oculus, optic
    --3 has particulars: ommatidium
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