SANSEVIERIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sansevieria mean? 

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

1. grown as a houseplant for its mottled fleshy sword-shaped leaves or as a source of fiber

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SANSEVIERIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grown as a houseplant for its mottled fleshy sword-shaped leaves or as a source of fiber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bowstring hemp; sansevieria

Hypernyms ("sansevieria" is a kind of...):

agave; American aloe; century plant (tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber)

Meronyms (substance of "sansevieria"):

bowstring hemp (strong fiber that resembles hemp; obtained from sansevieria and used for e.g. cordage)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sansevieria"):

African bowstring hemp; African hemp; Sansevieria guineensis (bowstring hemp of South Africa)

Ceylon bowstring hemp; Sansevieria zeylanica (plant having thick fibrous leaves transversely banded in light and dark green)

mother-in-law's tongue; Sansevieria trifasciata; snake plant (stemless plant having narrow rigid leaves often cultivated as a houseplant)

Holonyms ("sansevieria" is a member of...):

genus Sansevieria (Old World tropical herbaceous perennial of the agave family; in some classifications considered a genus of Liliaceae)