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bromelid

bromelid is the alternative form of bromeliad.

Meaning of bromeliad

Noun

bromeliad (plural bromeliads)

  1. Any of various tropical or subtropical New World herbaceous plants in the family Bromeliaceae: some are air plants (for example, Spanish moss) and some are terrestrial (for example, pineapples).
    • The rapid runoff of torrential storms sweeps soil from this sea of rock, where an island of lichens and mosses (below) anchors a colony of Brocchinia reducta. These bromeliads endure both intense solar radiation and cool, humid conditions.1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 551
    Synonyms:
    bromelia

Forms of bromelid

pluralbromelids

Questions about bromelid

What is bromelid the alternative form of?
Bromelid is the alternative form of bromeliad.

Words near bromelid in the dictionary

  1. bromeliaceous
  2. bromeliad
  3. bromeliads
  4. bromelias
  5. bromeliculous
  6. bromelid
  7. bromelids
  8. bromeligen
  9. bromeligenous
  10. bromelin
  11. bromelins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bromelid (page history and authors); bromeliad (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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