stemma
noun
stemmata
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pluralof stemma.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Its great faceted eyes inform it of all that happens to right and left; its three stemmata, like little ruby telescopes, explore the sky above its head.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall
OCELLI.—The simple eyes or stemmata of insects, usually situated on the crown of the head between the great compound eyes.
From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin
The quadrangle of the university building at Padua is surrounded by beautiful arcades, the walls and ceilings of which are everywhere covered with the stemmata, or shields, of former students, many of them brilliantly painted.
From The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 by William Osler
