TILLANDSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tillandsia mean? 

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

1. large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TILLANDSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Tillandsia; Tillandsia

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Tillandsia"):

black moss; long moss; old man's beard; Spanish moss; Tillandsia usneoides (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)

Holonyms ("Tillandsia" 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)