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house plant

noun

  1. a plant that can be grown indoors
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

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.

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.

I like the light blue heliotrope better than any other house plant, so I have propagated about twenty-five plants of that.

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