pineapple family

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

Bromeliaceae, family Bromeliaceae

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

Commelinales, order Commelinales, order Xyridales, Xyridales - an order of monocotyledonous herbs

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

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