- stemmatic
- adjective see stemma
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
stemmatic
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stemma — [stem′ə] n. pl. stemmata [stem′ə tə] or stemmas 1. FAMILY TREE (sense 1) 2. a record or diagram showing the connections between manuscripts of a given literary work stemmatic [stem at′ik] adj … English World dictionary
