Syn. — Cultivation; culture; husbandry; farming; agriculture.
||Til*land"si*a (?), n. [NL. So named after Prof. Tillands, of Abo, in
||Finland.] (Bot.) 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.
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Till"er (?), n. [From Till, v. t.] One who tills; a husbandman; a
cultivator; a plowman.
Till"er, n. [AS. telgor a small branch. Cf. Till to cultivate.] 1.
(Bot.) (a) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the
original stalk; a sucker. (b) A sprout or young tree that springs from
a root or stump.