houseplant

[ hous-plant, -plahnt ]

noun
  1. an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.

Origin of houseplant

1
First recorded in 1870–75; house + plant

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How to use houseplant in a sentence

  • The one was a hot-house plant, the other a garden flower, or even a wild flower.

  • From its natural region it has been transplanted everywhere, and even in cold climates it is cultivated as a green-house plant.

    Mexico | Susan Hale
  • Mary Foster carried in her black-gloved hands a cluster of white pyrethrums, a favorite house-plant in Tuskamuck.

  • I have watched for many years the attempts to make art grow, to force it like a hot-house plant.

    Our Philadelphia | Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  • I like the light blue heliotrope better than any other house plant, so I have propagated about twenty-five plants of that.

British Dictionary definitions for house plant

house plant

noun
  1. a plant that can be grown indoors

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