bromeliad

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Grown only in the New World tropics, pineapples belong to the bromeliad family.

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  1. noun Any of various mostly epiphytic tropical American plants of the family Bromeliaceae, usually having long stiff leaves, colorful flowers, and showy bracts. Bromeliads include the pineapple, the Spanish moss, and numerous ornamentals.

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  • This year, consider another plant that is available at most garden centers and florists: the bromeliad. —  azcentral.com | news
  • It's slow going, but half the kitchen is done. saving the world, one drawer at a time. bromeliad on April 7th 2009 at 12: 25pm view bromeliad's —  Apartment Therapy Main
  • These plants have gained an unfair reputation, probably because of the difficulty required to coax a bloom from a bromeliad. —  About Today
  • Here are few examples of convergence at different scales: the focusing eyes of cnidarians, cephalopods and vertebrates old man's beard (lichen) / Spanish moss (bromeliad) hagfish / an Amazonian deep water catfish —  ScreenTalk
  • The bromeliad house, a counterpart to the garden's Orchid House, will display the collection of world-renowned bromeliad specialist John Anderson, who hails from Corpus Christi.
 

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  1. From New Latin Bromelia, type genus, after Olaf Bromelius (1639-1705), Swedish botanist.
 

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