stemma

Noun

Meaning

One of the ocelli of an insect. See Ocellus.

One of the facets of a compound eye of any arthropod.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

line blood origin descent lineage parentage family history heredity bloodline family tree eyespot simple eye

Hypernyms

oculus optic family tree

Hyponyms

sept family side folk ommatidium family line

Related terms

stemmatics stemma codicum

Derivatives

stemmata

Examples

Before the new uniformity imposed by John Paul II, each cardinal was given a ring, the central piece of which was a gem, usually a sapphire, with the pope's stemma engraved on the inside. citation. Source: Internet

Vishnu Sukthankar, editor of the first great critical edition of the Mahabharata, commented: "It is useless to think of reconstructing a fluid text in a literally original shape, on the basis of an archetype and a stemma codicum. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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