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TILLANDSIA

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Meaning:

Large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses

Synonyms:

genus Tillandsia; Tillandsia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("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 "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 ("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)

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