pineapple family
Noun
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A family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance (synset 112627668)
is a type of: liliopsid family, monocot family - family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seedmember holonym:
- 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
belongs to: commelinales, order commelinales, order xyridales, xyridales - an order of monocotyledonous herbssame as: bromeliaceae, family bromeliaceae
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