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HOUSEPLANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("houseplant" is a kind of...):
flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "houseplant"):
Aglaonema modestum; Chinese evergreen; Japanese leaf (erect or partially climbing herb having large green or variegated leaves)
anthurium; tail-flower; tailflower (any of various tropical American plants cultivated for their showy foliage and flowers)
blood berry; bloodberry; Rivina humilis; rouge plant; rougeberry (bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas)
Gynura aurantiaca; purple velvet plant; royal velvet plant; velvet plant (Javanese foliage plant grown for their handsome velvety leaves with violet-purple hairs)
Exacum affine; Persian violet (perennial cultivated especially as a houseplant for its fragrant bluish to dark lavender flowers)
episcia (any plant of the genus Episcia; usually creeping and stoloniferous and of cascading habit; grown for their colorful foliage and flowers)
gloxinia (any of several plants of the genera Gloxinia or Sinningia (greenhouse gloxinias) having showy bell-shaped flowers)
kohleria (shrubby herb cultivated for their soft velvety foliage and showy scarlet flowers)
plectranthus (any of various ornamental plants of the genus Plectranthus)
