a. [ Named after Olaf Bromel, a Swedish botanist. ] (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera
n. any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers; the
n. [ L. cimeliarcha, Gr. &unr_;, treasurer. ] A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Bot.) Pertaining to a natural order (
prop. n. The type genus of the