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Definition of: tillandsia
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(ti·land′zē·ə) noun
Any of a genus (Tillandsia) of mainly epiphytic bromeliaceous plants of tropical America and the southern United States, having narrow, entire, often scurfy leaves, and flowers in a terminal spike. [<NL, after Elias Tillands, 18th c. Swedish botanist]
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