• (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera Tillandsia and Billbergia are examples. The pineapple, though terrestrial, is also of this family.
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Bro·me`li·a'ceous adjective [ Named after Olaf
Bromel , a Swedish botanist.]
(Botany) Pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera
Tillandsia and
Billbergia are examples. The pineapple, though terrestrial...
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