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.
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  • 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
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    "I always need something like a "smaller than" symbol or a "trema" symbol (double dot), so I alternate."
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