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n. A scroll recording the genealogy of an ancient Roman family; a family tree.

n. The genealogy of the manuscripts of a literary work.

n. A small, circular, simple eye present in various insect larvae.

n. A family tree or recorded genealogy

n. In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts

n. One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods

n. One of the ocelli of an insect. See ocellus.

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

n. A family tree, or pedigree; specifically, such a pedigree made more or less decorative with heraldic or other ornaments; also, pedigree in general; order of descent; family: as, a man of the stemma of the Cecils.

n. The simple as distinguished from the compound eye of an invertebrate; an ocellus: always sessile and immovable.

n. One of the facets or corneules of a compound eye.

n. In entomology, the tubercle from which an antenna arises.

n. an eye having a single lens

n. the descendants of one individual

n. a tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work

"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."

tree diagram    tree   

spurious stemma   

stemmatics   

stemmata    ocellus   

libet    duri    outstretching    optimus    fidelis    maximus    wish-fulfillment    lifeline    bellicosity