BROMELIACEOUS

Bro‐me′li‐a″ceous (�), a. [[Named after Olaf Bromel, a Swedish botanist.]] (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera Tillandsia and Billbergia are examples. The pineapple, though terrestrial, is also of this family.