BROMELIA

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Meaning:

The type genus of the family Bromeliaceae which includes tropical American plants with deeply cleft calyx

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Bromelia" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Holonyms ("Bromelia" is a member of...):

Bromeliaceae; family Bromeliaceae; pineapple family (a family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance)

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