Herbaceous species include Bromelia serra, B. hieronymi and Deinacanthon urbanianum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arid Chaco] Reference

It is covered by a plant allied, I believe, to Bromelia, and called by the inhabitants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Xerophytic vegetation occurs on and around the granite outcrops, consisting predominantly of plants from Bromelia, Poaceae and Orchidacea families.    From Wordnik.com.  [Central Suriname Nature Reserve, Suriname] Reference

The understory of primary thorn forest is punctuated with spiny terrestrial plants such as bayonet bromeliads (Bromelia serra) and star cactus (Cleistocactus baumanii).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chaco] Reference

Bromelia, on shell-fish and on a few turtles 'eggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2] Reference

Applied to the leaf of Bromelia Ananas: and to the calyx.    From Wordnik.com.  [The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...] Reference

It is covered by a plant allied, I believe, to Bromelia, and called by the inhabitants Chepones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XIV] Reference

J.H. germinibus glabris: petalis calyce iflongiori - Bromelia - bus, squamis semi-ellipticis apice erosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prodromus stirpium in horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium] Reference

Forests clothed the shore on every side, and the shelving beach met the wood in a bank of wild Bromelia, most brilliant in color.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence] Reference

The nanas, or pineapple (Bromelia ananas), though certainly not indigenous, grows here in great plenty with the most ordinary culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference

Another curious example of the way in which species have been modified to occupy new places in nature, is afforded by the various animals which inhabit the water-vessels formed by the leaves of many epiphytal species of Bromelia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

The pineapple (Bromelia ananassa) is supposed to be of American origin, and unknown to Europe before the time of Columbus; and yet, apart from the revelations of the Assyrian monuments, there has been some dispute upon this point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference

They had lived exactly a month on the island had found water, and had subsisted on the roots and tender flower-stalks of a species of Bromelia, on shell-fish. and on a few turtles’ eggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago] Reference

Page 62 is a very large flourishing plant, greatly resembling, at some distance, a well grown plant of the Bromelia Ananas: the large deep green leaves are placed in a imbricated order, and ascendant; but their extremities are reflex, their bases gibbous and hollowed, like a ladle, and capable of containing near a pint of water: heavy tempests of wind and rain tear these plants from the trees; yet they live and flourish on the earth, under the shadow of these great Live Oaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians.] Reference

Bromelia, animals inhabiting leaves of, 118.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

| | Bromelia ananas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World] Reference

Bromelia ananas. ii A: clivie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference

Bromelia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference

Bromelia, 103.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Bromelia, 247.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prodromus stirpium in horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium] Reference