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bromeliad common name for plants of the family Bromeliaceae ( pineapple family).

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bromeliad Any of the 1700 species of the pineapple family (Bromeliaceae). Most are native to the tropics and subtropics and, besides the pineapple, include many of the larger epiphytes of trees of the rainforests.

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