Stemma (plural stemmata) may refer to:
* In
stemmatics
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts or of printed books. Such texts may range in da ...
, an approach to textual criticism, a stemma or stemma codicum is a diagram showing the relationships of the various versions of a text to earlier versions or manuscripts
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Tree-like diagrams representing sentence structure and syntax created by
Lucien Tesnière
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Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a heraldry, heraldic communication design, visual design on an escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central ele ...
or arms in the Italian language
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family tree
A family tree, also called a genealogy or a pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. More detailed family trees, used in medicine and social work, are known as genograms.
Representations of ...
or recorded genealogy
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Stemmata refers to a class of simple eyes in arthropods
* Kind of empire crown in the late Roman, the Byzantine and the Bulgarian empires
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