bromelia

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1. the type genus of the family Bromeliaceae which includes tropical American plants with deeply cleft calyx (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	liliopsid genus, monocot genus,
definition	:	genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	bromeliaceae, family bromeliaceae, pineapple family,
definition	:	a family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance (noun.plant)