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Definition of Family Bromeliaceae
1. Noun. A family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance.
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Family, Monocot Family
Group relationships: Commelinales, Order Commelinales, Order Xyridales, Xyridales
Member holonyms: Ananas, Genus Ananas, Bromelia, Genus Tillandsia, Tillandsia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Bromeliaceae
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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