Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various mostly epiphytic tropical American plants of the family Bromeliaceae, usually having long stiff leaves, colorful flowers, and showy bracts. Bromeliads include the pineapple, Spanish moss, and many ornamentals.
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- noun Any of various
tropical orsubtropical New World herbaceous plants in thefamily Bromeliaceae.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Half a dozen gray-and-white Bolivian squirrel monkeys scamper from branch to branch in a strangler fig, then leap to a nearby bromeliad.
Take Me to the River Andrew McCarthy 2011
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(Island of the Herons) A thousand types of bromeliad (tropical plants) chose the shores of Laguna Catemaco for their home.
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Born's view of the big epiphytic bromeliad several meters down the vine was unobstructed.
Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010
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Born walked back past the heavily laden Ruumahum and stopped at the brim of the bromeliad which had attracted such excellent prey.
Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010
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Three arms supported it in a semistanding pose on the outer edge of the bromeliad.
Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010
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Today, when my grandson and I went to see “Aunt Ashley” at the grocery store, where she is a flower designer, there was a woman who was very excited about a reddish colored orchid she bought that was growing in a pot with a similar colored blooming bromeliad.
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Scads of petunias, lobelia, fancy begonias and geraniums, sweet potato vines, even a bromeliad.
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(Island of the Herons) A thousand types of bromeliad (tropical plants) chose the shores of Laguna Catemaco for their home.
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This is not a true moss at all, but rather a bromeliad, Tillandsia usneiodes, that favors these branches from which to view the world.
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A lost breeze blew, rifBing leaf tips on the bromeliad.
Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010
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