Bot. [L. (Pliny), a. Gr. τριχομανές a kind of fern (cf. τριχομανία a mania or passion for long hair).] A genus of ferns, having filamentous outgrowths from the margins of the fronds; the bristle-ferns.
1562. Turner, Herbal, II. 157 b. Trichomanes (that is our English Maydens heare).
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Trichomanes, the Herb Maiden-hair or Goldilocks.
1757. Parsons, in Phil. Trans., L. 401. We see the leaves of ferns of several kinds, polypodium, tricomanes, and other capillary plants.
1885. Lady Brassey, The Trades, 234. Such ferns as trichomanes, hymenophyllums, and many others growing in the greatest luxuriance.
Hence Trichomanoid a., resembling or akin to the ferns of this genus.
1900. in B. D. Jackson, Gloss. Bot. Terms.
