tillandsia

Noun
  1. Large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses (synset 112628657)
    is a type of: liliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed
    member holonym: 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
    belongs to: bromeliaceae, family bromeliaceae, pineapple family - a family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance
    same as: genus tillandsia

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