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Definition of Tillandsias
1. tillandsia [n] - See also: tillandsia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tillandsias
Literary usage of Tillandsias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"... one-fourth less than the natural Plate 261. dimensions. Fig. 1 is a section
through a detached flower. tillandsias Natural Order ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"tillandsias are mostly epiphytes and all natives of America. ... It is useless
to attempt a description of all the tillandsias that by chance may occur in ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"The native upright tillandsias are not in the general trade, but they are sometimes
offered: of ... tillandsias are grown both for foliage and for flowers. ..."
4. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1899)
"On the East coast, neither of the tillandsias grow more than 15 miles North ...
Where you find the live oaks and the tillandsias. there will you also find ..."
5. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Horticultural Society of London (1900)
"I believe it is the first time a hybrid obtained from the tillandsias has been
seen which has ... All my attempts to fertilise the tillandsias of the type ..."
6. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838 by Charles Wilkes (1852)
"This kind of ground continued for five leagues, with not a drop of water, nor
was a plant or bird collected ; nothing was seen growing but a few tillandsias ..."
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