bromelia

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun bromelia has 1 sense

bromelia(n = noun.plant) - the type genus of the family Bromeliaceae which includes tropical American plants with deeply cleft calyx;

is a kind of

liliopsid genus

monocot genus

is a member of bromeliaceae, family bromeliaceae, pineapple family

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

bromelia, n. (also bromeliad) any plant of the family Bromeliaceae (esp. of the genus Bromelia), native to the New World, having short stems with rosettes of stiff usu. spiny leaves, e.g. pineapple.

Etymology

O. Bromel, Sw. botanist d. 1705