bromélia
Portuguese, noun
bromélia is spelled B-R-O-M-É-L-I-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese, the 109,086th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bromélia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “bromeliad (any plant in the family Bromeliaceae)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, bromelia is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “nome popular da Vriesea hybrida”.
What does bromélia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebromeliad (any plant in the family Bromeliaceae)
noun
- 1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of bromélia
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. nome popular da Vriesea hybrida 2. gênero da família das bromeliáceas 3. ananás
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bromélia
- bromelias plural
- bromélias plural
- bromelia alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to bromélia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bromélia in Portuguese?
bromélia appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).