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GENUS TILLANDSIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses
Synonyms:
genus Tillandsia; Tillandsia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Tillandsia" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "genus Tillandsia"):
black moss; long moss; old man's beard; Spanish moss; Tillandsia usneoides (dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America)
Holonyms ("genus Tillandsia" 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)
