Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bromeliaceous

Bromeliaceous ({not transcribed}) , adjective

[Named after Olaf Bromel, a Swedish botanist.]

(Botany) 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.