Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large genus of hymenophyllaceous ferns, having the sori marginal, terminating a vein, and more or less sunken in the frond.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Any fern of the genus Trichomanes. The fronds are very delicate and often translucent, and the sporangia are borne on threadlike receptacles rising from the middle of cup-shaped marginal involucres. Several species are common in conservatories; two are native in the United States.
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- noun bristle ferns; kidney ferns
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Examples
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Along the path there were fascinating details, composed of the manifold greenery which revels in damp heat, ferns, mosses, confervae, fungi, trailers, shading tiny rills which dropped down into grottoes feathery with the exquisite Trichomanes radicans, or drooped over the rustic path and hung into the river, and overhead the finely incised and almost feathery foliage of several varieties of maple admitted the light only as a green mist.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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Native treatment consisted of frequent and hot fomentations with a thick decoction of ferns, Ceterach, and Trichomanes nigra boiled with wild peppermint.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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Trichomanes which had no other within thirty miles of it; it was growing on a tombstone which had come from a long distance and from a
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler 1868
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The beautiful Microlepia tenuifolia abounded, and there were a few plants of the loveliest fern I ever saw (Trichomanes meifolium), in specimens of which I indulged sparingly, and almost grudgingly, for it seemed unfitting that a form of such perfect beauty should be mummied in a herbarium.
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_Asplenium alterniflorum_, _Trichomanes speciosum_.
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Malva scandens, Felix scandens, perhaps species of Trichomanes; the leaves are palmated, or radiated;
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Trichomanes (demissuifi) frondibus erectis gla - bris subbipinnatisque, inferne ad elongatio - nem oppositis, deinceps alternis decurrenti - bus integerrimis, laciniis lineari-obtusis inte - gris dichotomis, perisporangiis terminalibus ovato-obtusis variis, columnula brevi non exserta.
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Trichomanes (epipJiyllum) frondibus bipinnatis, foliolis pinnatis acuminatis, pinnis linearibus inciso-serratis, fructificationibus in pagina su - periore infra apicem incisurarum squamaceis.
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Trichomanes (tenuifoUa) frondibujs supradecom - positis, pinnis inferioribus alternis pinnatill - dis, superioribus oppositis, foliis lanceolatis incisis.
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Trichomanes (solidimi) frondibus decompositis, foliolis acuminatis, pinnis ovato-oblongis in - cisis crenatis, fructificationibus tyiformibus tu - bulosis.
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