genus tillandsia
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1. large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | liliopsid genus, monocot genus, |
definition | : | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | black moss, long moss, old man's beard, spanish moss, tillandsia usneoides, |
definition | : | dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America (noun.plant) |
member meronym | : | bromeliaceae, family bromeliaceae, pineapple family, |
definition | : | a family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance (noun.plant) |
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