Definition of Family bromeliaceae

1. Noun. A family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Bromeliaceae

family Boletaceae
family Bombacaceae
family Bombycidae
family Bombycillidae
family Bombyliidae
family Boraginaceae
family Bothidae
family Bovidae
family Bradypodidae
family Bramidae
family Branchiobdellidae
family Branchiostegidae
family Branchiostomidae
family Brevicipitidae
family Bromeliaceae
family Brotulidae
family Bruchidae
family Bryaceae
family Buccinidae
family Bucconidae
family Bucerotidae
family Bufonidae
family Burhinidae
family Burmanniaceae
family Burseraceae
family Buxaceae
family Cactaceae
family Caeciliadae
family Caeciliidae

Literary usage of Family bromeliaceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"... the pineapple family (Bromeliaceae, example, the pineapple cultivated in Florida); the Florida moss or hanging moss (Tillandsia usneoides); ..."

2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"... the pineapple family (Bromeliaceae, example, the pineapple cultivated in Florida); the Florida moss or hanging moss (Tillandsia usneoides); ..."

3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1900)
"family bromeliaceae. Pineapple Family. Everyone who has visited the southern states has noticed and admired the graceful southern moss, long moss or gray ..."

4. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1920)
"Linnaeus named Tillandsia of the family bromeliaceae after him.—PA Rydberg. 84. MANGIN.L. Paul Harlot (1854-1917). Notice nécrologique. [Obituary notice. ..."

5. Botany for High Schhools by George Francis Atkinson (1912)
"The pineapple family (Bromeliaceae).—The pineapple (Ananas sativus) is native to tropical America. It is a low plant with hard, stiff, narrow, ..."

6. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1911)
"... the island of Jamaica and supposed by him to be Tillandsia paniculata L. Professor Carl Mez, in his Monograph of the family Bromeliaceae (DC. Mon. Phan. ..."

7. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"... most of the family Bromeliaceae very accommodating not only to temperature and moisture conditions, but to soils and methods of growing them; ..."

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