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Definition of Bromeliads
1. bromeliad [n] - See also: bromeliad
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bromeliads
Literary usage of Bromeliads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1917)
"The larva occurs in water held by the leaf-bases of epiphytic bromeliads.
Forested regions of South America ; Trinidad. ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"9) of large terrestrial xerophytic South American bromeliads, allied to
Pitcairnia (differing in having a fully superior rather than partially superior ..."
3. Mexico's Pacific Coast by Vivien Lougheed (2004)
"Similar in appearance to the orchids are bromeliads, plants of the pineapple ...
Unique to the Americas, bromeliads will grow in any elevation up to 8000 ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"But what perhaps is more remarkable is the fact that several of the stronger-growing
bromeliads appear to grow equally well either in a strong loamy mixture ..."
5. Adventure Guide to Belize by Carol O'Donnell, Vivien Lougheed (2003)
"Similar in appearance to the orchids are the bromeliads, or air plants. Unique to
the Americas, bromeliads grow in any elevation up to 8000 feet (2500 ..."
6. Belize by Vivien Lougheed (2005)
"Similar in appearance to the orchids are the bromeliads, or air plants. Unique to
the Americas, bromeliads grow at any elevation up to 8000 feet (2500 ..."
7. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1867)
"He was not quite certain of the name of the plant, bnt be thought it belonged to
the section of bromeliads called Puya. Another of them, and a very fine one ..."
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