TREMA

Trema

Trema is a genus of about 15 species of evergreen trees closely related to the hackberries, occurring in subtropical and tropical regions of southern Asia, northern Australasia, Africa, South and Central America, and parts of North America. They are generally small trees, reaching tall.

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trema

Noun

  1. a diacritic consisting of two dots ( ¨ ) placed over a letter, used among other things to indicate umlaut or diaeresis.
    The Trema is a diacritic that I have to add to the letter like an accent. So to catalog correctly your system has to offer you Trema and Umlaut. — Donald Pisani, 1
    If the tone is not falling, then a macron or trema is written above the vowel: mato. — Rob Nierse, 2


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