stemma

IPA: stˈɛmʌ

A family tree or recorded genealogy
In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts
One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods

Examples of "stemma" in Sentences

Harvey's stemma set in the walls of the university at
Please delete the image “stemma zucchini” from his blog.
-- De Cassii Dionis libris manuscriptis (with author's stemma).
If this is the case, a stemma of these documents might appear as follows:
Mrs Caterpillar slithered closer to the door, peeping through the peephole with her stemma.
The established device to represent such dependencies was, of course, the genealogical tree, or stemma.
A carved "stemma," or coat of arms, over a side-door was all the parsonage had to show, and no trace of the fresco was anywhere discernible.
This modern critical edition of the Baraita de-Niddah includes, in addition to an introduction, analysis and stemma, also a complete translation of the text in French.
(Left: Canon Missae with the Arms of Pius IX; Right: Dalmatic with Barque of Peter, Papal Arms and personal papal arms of Pius XII woven into the fabric) (The stemma of Pope Urban VIII embroidered onto the chasuble, with the distinctive element of his arms woven into the fabric)
Standing in the arcade on the side of the "quad" opposite the entrance, if one looks on the ceiling immediately above the capital of the second column to the left there is seen the stemma which appears as tailpiece to this chapter, put up by a young Englishman, William Harvey, who had been a student at Padua for four years.