tillandsia
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tillandsia
< New Latin (Linnaeus), after Elias Tillands, 17th-century Finno-Swedish botanist; see -ia
Example Sentences
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The outfits are made of colorful living material, including headdresses of tillandsia, or air plants, and tresses of huperzia, a tropical clubmoss.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
South Bay Bromeliad Associates members will be displaying their own bromeliads, including specimens of tillandsia, neoregelia, dyckia, vriesea, aechmea, billbergia and guzmanias.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2022
Gutierrez stocks about 100 tillandsia per week and says the majority are purchased by young people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2018
The palms, then saplings, now reach up into the sky and double as a vertical gallery for orchids, tillandsia and ferns that have been grafted onto their trunks.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 7, 2015
From some of these trees a peculiar tillandsia streams down, much like our Spanish moss,—but it is black!
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
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