tillandsia

til·land·si·a  (t-lndz-)

n.

Any of various usually epiphytic bromeliad plants of the genus Tillandsia, such as Spanish moss, of tropical and subtropical America.

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[New Latin Tillandsia, genus name, after Elias Tillands (1640-1693), Finno-Swedish botanist.]

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Tillandsia - large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses genus Tillandsia liliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed Bromeliaceae, family Bromeliaceae, pineapple family - a family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance 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