stemma   (TTS Sound)

The noun stemma has 3 senses

• stemma -- (a tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work)


• lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock -- (the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors")


• simple eye, stemma, ocellus -- (an eye having a single lens)