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BROMELIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
The type genus of the family Bromeliaceae which includes tropical American plants with deeply cleft calyx
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Bromelia" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Holonyms ("Bromelia" is a member of...):
Bromeliaceae; family Bromeliaceae; pineapple family (a family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance)