What is "stemma"

Stemma \Stem"ma\, n.; pl. Stemmata. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, pl. ?, a garland or chaplet.] (Zo["o]l.)

1. One of the ocelli of an insect. See Ocellus.

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

n. 1 A family tree or recorded genealogy 2 In the study of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textual%20criticism%23Stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts 3 One of the types of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/simple%20eyes%20in%20arthropods%23Stemmata

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

2. the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stock]

3. an eye having a single lens [syn: simple eye, ocellus]

4. [also: stemmata (pl)]

Stemma (plural stemmata) may refer to:

• One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods
• A family tree or recorded genealogy
• In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts
• A graphical representation of the grammatical dependencies between the words in a syntactic construction --- see Tesniere