Definitions for Tillandsia

Tillandsia til·lands·i·a

Spelling: [ti-land-zee-uh]
IPA: /tɪˈlænd zi ə/

Tillandsia is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 416 anagrams from letters in Tillandsia (aadiillnst).

Definitions for Tillandsia

noun

  1. any of numerous, chiefly epiphytic bromeliads of the genus Tillandsia, including Spanish moss and many species cultivated as ornamentals.

Origin of Tillandsia

New Latin (Linnaeus), after Elias Tillands, 17th-century Finno-Swedish botanist; see -ia

Examples for Tillandsia

The moss (tillandsia usneoides) served to calk the rude vessel of the first French colonists, longing for home.

The insects in the water which ought to nourish the Bromeliad (tillandsia) are really used by the Utricularia.

tillandsia, ti-land′zi-a, n. a genus of mainly epiphytic plants of the pine-apple family (Bromeliace).

We spent half-an-hour in dragging the tillandsia from the trees, and collecting the soft leaves of the pawpaws.

He next tore off several bundles of the tillandsia, and placed it over the spot thus wattled.

It is composed almost entirely of dead cane leaves, a little Spanish moss (tillandsia usneoides), and a few skeletonized leaves.

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