Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various evergreen shrubs or small trees of the genus Schefflera, having palmately compound leaves. Several species are cultivated as houseplants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants of the family Araliaceæ. See
Sciadophyllum .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large genus of shrubby and climbing tropical plants having showy digitately compound foliage
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There, house plants such as schefflera are trees, and orchids and bromeliads serve as understory plantings, and it seemed to me that there were plants flowering everywhere.
azcentral.com | news 2009
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At after four in the morning I was still in my office, curled up in the ancient armchair under my schefflera plant, the handwoven throw that usually hid the worn upholstery and bleeding stuffing pulled around my shoulders against the damp and cold.
While Other People Sleep Muller, Marcia 1998
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Boston ivy cherry chrysanthemum creeping charlie creeping fig daffodil elephant ears emerald duke english holly iris red princess rubber plants schefflera spider mum spider plant sprengeri fern tulip weeping fig
250 Things You Can Do to Make Your Cat Adore You INGRID NEWKIRK 1998
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Boston ivy cherry chrysanthemum creeping charlie creeping fig daffodil elephant ears emerald duke english holly iris red princess rubber plants schefflera spider mum spider plant sprengeri fern tulip weeping fig
250 Things You Can Do to Make Your Cat Adore You INGRID NEWKIRK 1998
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Miniature fairy garden with added with color of green from schefflera and soft pink miniature roses.
LJWorld.com stories: News < 2010
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A number of houseplants, including schefflera, Japanese aralia, and shrubby or treelike figs, benefit from pruning to shape them as they grow.
SFGate: Top News Stories Pam Peirce 2010
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However, you will be glad to know that schefflera responds very well to severe cutting back.
SFGate: Top News Stories Pam Peirce 2010
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They also substituted a similar plant for the schefflera and delivered it in time for a funeral service in Fruita.
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But it did not damage any of the shop's inventory outside of the schefflera and toys.
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Pity that schefflera plant that froze and those stuffed toys that were spoiled by smoke.
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