Trema (trema)

[NL. (Loureiro, 1790), from the small external pits in the endocarp of many Trematoda species; tent. T. micrantha, known in Jamaica as nettle - tree, is a rough-leaved shrub or small tree, widely diffused from Cuba to Brazil. Three species occur in Australia, and are known as hoop -ash; of these T. oriental is, a tree about 40 also to Ceylon, and is known as charcoal tree in India, where feet high with evergreen leaves silvery beneath, extends it springs up profusely in deserted grounds. 2. [l. c.] In an at.: (a) A foramen. (b) The vulva. [Rare.] Tremadoc slate (tre-mad'ok slat). A division of the Lower Silurian: so named by Sedgwick because occurring near Tremadoc in Carnarvonshire. It is at the top of this subdivision of the older rocks of this region, in regard to whose nomenclature there has been so much dispute, that the line between Cam brian and Silurian is drawn in England by those English geologists who desire to use the former name. See Silurian. tremando (trā-män dō), adv. [It., trembling, ppr. of tremare, tremble: see tremble.] In mu sic, same as tremolando. Tremandra (trē-man'dra), (tre-man'dra), n. [NL. (R. Brown, 1814), named from the remarkably tremulous anthers; flower. ovate dentate leaves and axillary purple flowers. The T. verticil lat a of greenhouse cultivation, now separated as Platy theca galioides, on account of its whorled leaves and biseriate unjointed anthers, is known as purple heathTremandreæ (tre-man'drē-ē), n. pl. [NL. (R. Brown, 1814),