Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a wide variety of plants grown indoors, often for decorative purposes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
plant that is grownindoors in places such as ahouse oroffice fordecorative purposes. - noun A variety of plant that is especially suited to such cultivation, or that is frequently grown in such settings.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes
Etymologies
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Examples
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What you normally call a houseplant they know to be Mother Nature's clean air machine.
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What you normally call a houseplant they know to be Mother Nature's clean air machine.
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A woman who laughingly called me a "houseplant" but let me spend my vacation as I wanted, loved me as I was.
A Study in Contrasts: My Other Granny kittenpie 2006
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A woman who laughingly called me a "houseplant" but let me spend my vacation as I wanted, loved me as I was.
Archive 2006-07-01 kittenpie 2006
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Well, known as salvia divinorum, this leafy "houseplant" is a highly-potent relative of sage and mint plants.
FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2010
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Pot plant Potted plant (or, as we have discussed, mostly "houseplant", or was it "house plant"?) 2 by 4 (construction) vs. 4 by 2 (I don't remember which is which) (
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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I even recently used the app to find out that the houseplant in my room is native to southeast Asia.
David Kroodsma: Your iPhone: A Crowd-Sourced Field Guide to Save the Planet David Kroodsma 2011
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Q: What is the easiest houseplant to take care of?
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It is often planted as a low growing (to 3 feet) border and can be grown as a houseplant or hothouse plant anywhere.
Crossandra, mango and jellybean plant: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico 2009
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You may have caught a glimpse of gymnastics on TV, noticed a fresh bloom on a houseplant or eaten a just-ripe Granny Smith apple -- these are all things that to me would conjure the quality of energy I seek.
Susan Piver: New Year's Resolution Revamp Susan Piver 2011
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