Swedish ivy

American  

noun

1. any of various plants belonging to the genus Plectranthus, of the mint family, native to the Old World tropics, having rounded, scalloped or toothed leaves and widely cultivated as a houseplant.

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Example Sentences

Last fall photographs were sought for a Living story about a particular Swedish ivy on the White House Oval Office mantel.

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It would be difficult, and maybe impossible, for any one Swedish ivy to serve indefinitely as The Plant, the apotheosis of U.S. household horticulture.

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Swedish ivies are hardy, but the Oval Office Swedish ivy gets the supervisory horticulturalist's conscientious care.

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Reported by Christopher Redman/Washington and Adam Zagorin/New York Presidents come and go, but the Swedish ivy stays Even at this time of year, Washington, D.C., is crawling with flowers and plants.

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Anywhere else it would be a robust but unremarkable Swedish ivy.

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