Crossword-Solution: TILLANDSIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tillandsia | n. | A genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “TILLANDSIA”
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| any plant of the mainly epiphytic tropical American genus Tillandsia of the pineapple family | 1 answer |
| SPANISH moss | 3 answers |
| AMERICAN pineapple (genus) | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
NDEVII
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with TILLANDSIA (5)
Perhaps thereafter she may bear you through the immense silence of drenched rice-fields, where the yellow-green level is broken at long intervals by the black silhouette of some irrigating machine;--but, whichever of the five different routes be pursued, you will find yourself more than once floating through sombre mazes of swamp-forest,--past assemblages of cypresses all hoary with the parasitic tillandsia, and grotesque as gatherings of fetich-gods.
Batalha: it is a moss, like the tillandsia of the Southern United States, and I afterwards recognized it in the island of Annobom.
Gardner,** it is aquatic, but “is only to be found growing in the water which collects in the bottom of the leaves of a large Tillandsia, that inhabits abundantly an arid rocky part of the mountain, at an elevation of about 5000 feet above the level of the sea.
Besides the ordinary method by seed, it propagates itself by runners, which it throws out from the base of the flower-stem; this runner is always found directing itself towards the nearest Tillandsia, when it inserts its point into the water and gives origin to a new plant, which in its turn sends out another shoot.
Pine and oak trees covered the heights, shrouded with long fringes and festoons of the moss-like Tillandsia.