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trichomanes
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun trichomanes has 1 sense
- trichomanes(n = noun.plant) genus trichomanes - bristle ferns; kidney ferns; Array is a member of family hymenophyllaceae, hymenophyllaceae
is a kind of fern genus
CIDE DICTIONARY
trichomanes, n. [L., a kind of plant, from Gr. .].
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. [1913 Webster]
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