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Webster 1913 Edition


Bromeliaceous

Bro-meˊli-a′ceous

,
Adj.
[Named after Olaf
Bromel
, a Swedish botanist.]
(Bot.)
Pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera
Tillandsia
and
Billbergia
are examples. The pineapple, though terrestrial, is also of this family.