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Definition of Bromelia
1. Noun. The type genus of the family Bromeliaceae which includes tropical American plants with deeply cleft calyx.
Group relationships: Bromeliaceae, Family Bromeliaceae, Pineapple Family
Definition of Bromelia
1. a plant of the pineapple family [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bromelia
Literary usage of Bromelia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vegetable Substances: Materials of Manufactures (1833)
"... Excellent twine for ropes may likewise be obtained from the leaves of several
species of bromelia, the same genus of plants as the pine-apple. ..."
2. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec: Being the Results of a Survey for a Railroad to by John Jay Williams (1852)
"Among the spontaneous products is the bromelia pita, or ixtle of the Isthmus,
which differs in some respects from the agave americana of Europe, ..."
3. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"The Screw-pines are remarkable for th«-r gigantic bromelia-like leaves, arranged , ,
spiral manner. Though abounding n*«-- Mauritius and Bourbon, ..."
4. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1811)
"Q. Ked-bracted bromelia. Nat. of Jamaica. Introd. 1785, by RA Salisbury, ...
Dwarf bromelia. Nat. Introd. 1789, by Baron Hake. Fi . S. fj. PITCAIRNIA. ..."
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