trichomanes
IPA: trˈɪtʃʌmˈeɪnz
noun
- bristle ferns; kidney ferns
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Examples of "trichomanes" in Sentences
- 'This is _Dub-cosac_ (trichomanes), that's good for the heart; very good for a sore heart.
- The roofs and walls are covered with Canary house-leek and those elegant trichomanes, mentioned by every traveller.
- But we have in greater abundance the common Maidenhair (_Asplenium trichomanes_), which grows on old walls, and which will act as a laxative medicine; whilst idiots are said to have taken it remedially, so as to recover their senses.
- Woody trailers, harsh hard grass in tufts, the Asplenium trichomanes in rifts, the Pellea ternifolia in sand, and some ohia and mamane scrub in hollow places sheltered from the wind, all hard, crisp, unlovely growths, contrast with the lavish greenery below.
- The walls are broken and highly fantastic, narrowing here, receding there, their strangely-arched recesses festooned with the feathery trichomanes, their clustering columns and broken buttresses suggesting some old-world minster, and their stately tiers of columnar basalt rising one above another in barren grey into the far-off blue sky.
- The rich woodland scenery, the green pastures with their large wild fences now laden with wild roses; the shady lanes, whose banks will soon be covered with the long, bright green fronds of the hartstongue, and the delicate drooping trichomanes; the fine timber, and the picturesque farmhouses with their thatched roofs nestling in the valleys -- all tend to give a home-like English air to the scenery of Normandy.
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