stemma
[noun]
Synonyms: genealogy, begats, family tree, pedigree

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stemma noun. ['stɛmǝ] Pl. stemmata ['stɛmǝtǝ]. M17.
[Latin from Greek (= garland), from stephein to crown.]
1. a. A recorded genealogy of a family, a family tree; a pedigree. M17.
b. A diagram representing a reconstruction of the interrelationships between surviving witnesses in the (esp. manuscript) tradition of a text. Cf. STEMMATICS. M20.

2. Zoology. In arthropods, a simple eye, an ocellus. Now usu. spec., a lateral eye in a holometabolous insect larva. E19.

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