absence of a stem

(nautical) The top and foremost end of a stem on a marine vessel.

plural of stemhead

Synonym of stemmatics

plural of stembark

The bark from the stem of a woody plant.

plural of stemma codicum

(textual criticism) A schema, resulting from the stemmatological process of recension, in which all surviving manuscripts of a given text are represented with their derivation, via intermediary hyparchetypes, from a single archetype.

In terms of stemmatology.

Relating to stemmatology.