| agrostemma | (n) a caryophylloid dicot genus including corn cockles, Syn. genus Agrostemma |
| sarcostemma | (n) succulent subshrubs or vines; tropical and subtropical India and Africa and Malaysia, Syn. genus Sarcostemma |
| stemma | (n) a tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work |
| stemmatic | (adj) of or relating to a textual stemma |
| stemmatology | (n) the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis), Syn. stemmatics, Example: stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology; transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics |
| corn cockle | (n) European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America, Syn. corn campion, crown-of-the-field, Agrostemma githago |
| lineage | (n) the descendants of one individual, Syn. stemma, blood, parentage, bloodline, origin, blood line, descent, pedigree, ancestry, line of descent, line, stock, Example: his entire lineage has been warriors |
| simple eye | (n) an eye having a single lens, Syn. stemma, ocellus |
| soma | (n) leafless East Indian vine; its sour milky juice formerly used to make an intoxicating drink, Syn. Sarcostemma acidum, haoma |