genus of plants belonging to the class of cryptogamia, and order of filices. See Botany Index.

Tricocceae (τρικόκκος "three," and κόκκος "a grain"), the name of the 38th order in Linnaeus's Fragments of a Natural Method, consisting of plants with a single three-cornered capsule, having three cells, or internal divisions, each containing a single seed. See Botany.