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- noun Plural form of
stemma .
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Examples
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Saxo Grammaticus, a quo rex Sueno et caetera Danorum regum stemmata.
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Nam generis sui stemmata illustria, nulli vsui futura ducebat, nisi illa clariora doctis artibus redderet.
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Nam generis sui stemmata illustria, nulli vsui futura ducebat, nisi illa clariora doctis artibus redderet.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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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.
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OcelliThe simple eyes or stemmata of insects, usually situated on the crown of the head between the great compound eyes.
Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Used in the Present Volume 1909
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Now, granted for a moment that the last of our stemmata is correct, _X_, from which _Π_ and _B_ descend, being earlier than _Π_, must have been a manuscript in majuscules, written in Italy, since that is unquestionably the provenience of _Π_.
A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York Edward Kennard Rand 1908
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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.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 William Osler 1884
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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.
Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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OCELLI -- - The simple eyes or stemmata of Insects, usually situated on the crown of the head between the great compound eyes.
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Nam generis sui stemmata illustria, nulli vsui futura ducebat, nisi illa clariora doctis artibus redderet.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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