HOUSEPLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does houseplant mean? 

• HOUSEPLANT (noun)
  The noun HOUSEPLANT has 1 sense:

1. any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes

  Familiarity information: HOUSEPLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOUSEPLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

 Context examples 

Scientists have genetically modified a common houseplant called pothos ivy or devil’s ivy that can remove chloroform and benzene from the air around it.

(Common Houseplant with Genetic Modification Can Remove Polluted Air, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)