tremandra

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


scientific name of a genus ofAustralian plants, the Purple Heath-flower. Name givenby R. Brown in 1814, from the remarkably tremulous anthers.(Lat. tremere, to tremble, and Grk. 'anaer, 'andros a man, taken as equivalent to «anther.» )