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Noun- A plant that is part of the family of tropical American epiphytic or terrestrial herbs or subshrubs that have basal often spiny leaves and flowers in dense spikes.

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  • Above, two vandas hanging from the bromeliad trellis.
  • A lost breeze blew, rifBing leaf tips on the bromeliad.
  • Here's one of the recent ones, a profusion of various bromeliad blooms:
  • When the tads hatch, they are transported to a water-filled bromeliad axil.
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