NOUN | plant | family Bromeliaceae, Bromeliaceae, pineapple family | a family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance |
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Meaning | A family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance. | |
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Synonyms | Bromeliaceae, pineapple family | |
Member of | Xyridales, order Xyridales, Commelinales, order Commelinales | An order of monocotyledonous herbs |
Members | Ananas, genus Ananas | A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples) |
Bromelia | The type genus of the family Bromeliaceae which includes tropical American plants with deeply cleft calyx | |
Tillandsia, genus Tillandsia | large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses | |
Broader | monocot family, liliopsid family | family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
Spanish | bromeliáceas | |
Catalan | Bromeliaceae |
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