How to use houseplant in a sentence
The one was a hot-house plant, the other a garden flower, or even a wild flower.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick NiecksFrom its natural region it has been transplanted everywhere, and even in cold climates it is cultivated as a green-house plant.
Mexico | Susan HaleMary Foster carried in her black-gloved hands a cluster of white pyrethrums, a favorite house-plant in Tuskamuck.
The Intoxicated Ghost | Arlo BatesI have watched for many years the attempts to make art grow, to force it like a hot-house plant.
Our Philadelphia | Elizabeth Robins PennellI like the light blue heliotrope better than any other house plant, so I have propagated about twenty-five plants of that.
Harper's Young People, January 4, 1881 | Various
British Dictionary definitions for house plant
a plant that can be grown indoors
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