BROMELIACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bromeliaceae mean? 

• BROMELIACEAE (noun)
  The noun BROMELIACEAE has 1 sense:

1. a family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance

  Familiarity information: BROMELIACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROMELIACEAE (noun)

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Meaning:

A family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Bromeliaceae; family Bromeliaceae; pineapple family

Hypernyms ("Bromeliaceae" is a kind of...):

liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Bromeliaceae"):

Ananas; genus Ananas (a genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples))

Bromelia (the type genus of the family Bromeliaceae which includes tropical American plants with deeply cleft calyx)

genus Tillandsia; Tillandsia (large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses)

Holonyms ("Bromeliaceae" is a member of...):

Commelinales; order Commelinales; order Xyridales; Xyridales (an order of monocotyledonous herbs)