PINEAPPLE FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pineapple family mean? 

• PINEAPPLE FAMILY (noun)
  The noun PINEAPPLE FAMILY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PINEAPPLE FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PINEAPPLE FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("pineapple family" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "pineapple family"):

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 ("pineapple family" is a member of...):

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