Stemma in a sentence as a noun

> Her discipline of philology, the study of the development of texts over time, requires comparing manuscripts to each other, building a stemma, or genealogy of texts, from a parent or original manuscript. She tells me that this is precisely the same skill one needs to read phylogenetic trees of mutating bacteria in order to trace the history of the disease.

Stemma definitions

noun

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

noun

the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"

noun

an eye having a single lens

See also: ocellus