| NOUN | plant | Tillandsia, genus Tillandsia | large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses |
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| Meaning | large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses. | |
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| Synonym | genus Tillandsia | |
| Member of | Bromeliaceae, family Bromeliaceae, pineapple family | A family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance |
| Members | Spanish moss, old man's beard, black moss, long moss, Tillandsia usneoides | dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree ... / tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots |
| Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
| Spanish | genus tillandsia, tillandsia | |
| Catalan | genus tillandsia, tillandsia, Tillandsia | |
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