Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various usually epiphytic bromeliad plants of the genus Tillandsia, such as Spanish moss, of tropical and subtropical America.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants, of the order Bromeliaceæ, the pineapple family, type of the tribe Tillandsieæ.
- noun [lowercase] A plant of this genus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An immense genus of epiphytic bromeliaceous plants confined to tropical and subtropical America. They usually bear a rosette of narrow overlapping basal leaves, which often hold a considerable quantity of water. The spicate or paniculate flowers have free perianth segments, and are often subtended by colored bracts. Also, a plant of this genus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the
genus Tillandsia ofAmerican epiphytes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Those trees, and the tillandsia are not winter hardy where I live, sadly.
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The large live oak tree on one of the holes, dripping with spanish moss, actually a bromeliad tillandsia, makes this a majestic scene.
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Even the spanish moss in live oaks is a tillandsia, pretty cool.
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The tillandsia bromeliads were tied onto the structure with fishing line, padded with a little spanish moss, which is also another tillandsia, T. usncoides.
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The Angolan orchilla was first sent to Lisbon by Sr.F. R. Batalha: it is a moss, like the tillandsia of the Southern United States, and I afterwards recognized it in the island of Annobom.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Each gust of wind is putrid, and with fog rolling over the shore and nothing growing on the barren earth save the silvery gray shadows of tillandsia, a plant that lives on dew, the land appears doomed, as if haunted by the past.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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Each gust of wind is putrid, and with fog rolling over the shore and nothing growing on the barren earth save the silvery gray shadows of tillandsia, a plant that lives on dew, the land appears doomed, as if haunted by the past.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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The moss (_tillandsia usneoides_) served to calk the rude vessel of the first French colonists, longing for home.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
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In the immediate background was a grove of tillandsia, fragrant and cool.
The Pay Yeoman 1914
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She halted abruptly by a giant tillandsia, and the paymaster approached and stood at her side.
The Pay Yeoman 1914
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