Trema
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
A genus of apetalous plants, of the order
Urticaceæ
and tribe
Celtideæ.
noun.
[
lowercase
] In
anatomy
:
noun.
A foramen.
noun.
The vulva.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
a diacritic consisting of two dots ( ¨ ) placed over a letter, used among other things to indicate
umlaut
or
diaeresis
.
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noun.
an evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia
Word Usage
"I always need something like a "smaller than" symbol or a "trema" symbol (double dot), so I alternate."
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
dicot genus
magnoliopsid genus
suggests
Trema