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Definition of Pineapple family
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 Pineapple Family
Literary usage of Pineapple family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... pineapple family. Tropical or subtropical plants (mostly herbs), the greater
part epiphytes, with dry or fleshy, mostly rigid, smooth or scurfy leaves, ..."
2. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"pineapple family. Epiphytic or rarely terrestrial herbs, commonly with scurfy
foliage. Leaves usually crowded at the base of the stem: blades entire ..."
3. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"... pineapple family. Tropical or subtropical plants (mostly herbs), the greater
part epiphytes, with dry or fleshy, mostly rigid, smooth or scurfy leaves, ..."
4. Botanical Guide Through the Phipps Conservatories in Pittsburg and Allegheny by Gustave Guttenberg (1894)
"pineapple family. Several interesting plants of the pineapple family are cultivated
on account of their brilliantly colored leaves, some also on account of ..."
5. The Negro in the New World by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1910)
"... which eventually strangle their host; of members of the pineapple family ...
but belongs to a genus (Tillandsia) of the pineapple family! ..."
6. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"pineapple family. Fig. 10. Herbs or subshrubs, mostly epiphytic: leaves usually
basal, alternate, linear, trough-like, sheathing at the base, mostly stiff ..."
7. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"2777.) and a few others are known to our greenhouses, but seldom seen. CLXXV.
THE pineapple family. ..."
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