bromeliad

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• The florist arranged a beautiful bouquet featuring red bromeliads and bright yellow flowers.

• Ernesto Medina of Stanford pointed out that bromeliads fix CO2 at night in the tropical forests of South America; in the forests of Africa and Asia, nothing draws carbon from the atmosphere during the night.

  Academic text (1994)

• Now as far as soil goes, being a bromeliad, it's going to want a more sandy loam.

  Epic Gardening

• Five kinds of bromeliad, one peperomia, nine orchid varieties.

  Fiction book (2002)

• A third major group of epiphytes is bromeliads, or members of the pineapple family.

  Academic text (1991)

• The forest vegetation also includes a wide variety of vines, bromeliads, and orchids.

  Academic text (1998)

• Epiphytic bromeliads are particularly abundant in the elfin forests on the highest peaks of the Caribbean National Forest.

  Academic text (1991)

• The path turned, then opened up to a semicircle of teak benches, beds of bromeliads, and hanging baskets of orchids.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Three more groups of vascular plants—ferns, orchids, and bromeliads—include epiphytes.

  Academic text (1991)

• Red bromeliads, black pacca orchids, and peacock ferns sprouted from the crevices of that formation.

  Fiction book (1999)

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Etymology