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puya|ˈpuːjə|
Also puza.
[mod.L. (G. I. Molina Saggio della Storia Naturale del Chile (1782) 160), a. Amer. Sp., f. Sp. puya goad.]
A herbaceous or woody plant of the genus so called, sometimes as large as a small tree, belonging to the family Bromeliaceæ, native to dry regions of the Andes, and distinguished by rosettes of spiny leaves and blue or yellow flowers borne singly or in large panicles or racemes.
1809tr. J. I. Molina's Geogr., Nat. & Civil Hist. Chili I. iii. 130 The trunk of the puya..is used for cork throughout Chili. 1847Curtis's Bot. Mag. LXXIII. 4309 (heading) Altenstein's Puya; gigantic variety. 1885Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Mar. 11/1 We mounted over rocks and more dust for some 2,000 feet, among puzas and succulent and prickly plants. 1902Westm. Gaz. 23 May 12/1 The blue Puya is known to frequenters of Kew by the beautiful picture of it painted by Miss North in Chili. 1920Nature 8 Apr. 160/2 On a sandstone plateau [in Bolivia]..was growing the gigantic ‘Puya’. 1963W. Blunt Of Flowers & Village 240 The Chilean puyas, if it is true that they are fertilized by hummingbirds, are exceptions. 1974T. Morrison Land above Clouds 149 The tallest flower spikes in the world grow from solitary stands of a giant bromeliad, the Puya. |