| 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 |
| stemmer | (n) a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers |
| stemmer | (n) an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem, Syn. stemming algorithm |
| stemmer | (n) a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge |
| stemmer | (n) a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples) |
