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stemmas

stemmas is the plural of stemma.

Meaning of stemma

Noun

stemma (plural stemmata or stemmas)

  1. A family tree or recorded genealogy.
    • Where so few dates are known, an authoritative stemma is out of the question1941, Sterling Dow, “A Family of Sculptors from Tyre”, in Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, →DOI, page 359
  2. In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts.
  3. One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods.

Questions about stemmas

What is stemmas the plural of?
Stemmas is the plural of stemma.

Words near stemmas in the dictionary

  1. STEMlord
  2. STEMlords
  3. STEMM
  4. stemma
  5. stemma codicum
  6. stemmas
  7. stemmata
  8. stemmata codicum
  9. stemmatic
  10. stemmatics
  11. stemmatological

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