| 单词 | houseplant |
| 释义 | houseplant (once / 303060 pages) n WORD FAMILY houseplant: houseplants USAGE EXAMPLESHere are suggestions for keeping your shopping simple, from a hip new book on houseplants to the equally unlikely idea of a good-looking tool holster. Seattle Times(Nov 30, 2016) But the idea of owning houseplants makes him nervous because it’s “too much of a commitment.” Seattle Times(Nov 10, 2016) Luckily for us, several common houseplants double as natural air purifiers, efficiently and effectively absorbing and filtering out toxic agents from our indoor air. Washington Post(Nov 07, 2016) n any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes Hypo|Hyper Aglaonema modestum, Chinese evergreen, Japanese leaf erect or partially climbing herb having large green or variegated leaves anthurium, tail-flower, tailflowerany of various tropical American plants cultivated for their showy foliage and flowers Rivina humilis, blood berry, bloodberry, rouge plant, rougeberrybushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas Gynura aurantiaca, purple velvet plant, royal velvet plant, velvet plantJavanese foliage plant grown for their handsome velvety leaves with violet-purple hairs Exacum affine, Persian violetperennial cultivated especially as a houseplant for its fragrant bluish to dark lavender flowers episciaany plant of the genus Episcia; usually creeping and stoloniferous and of cascading habit; grown for their colorful foliage and flowers gloxiniaany of several plants of the genera Gloxinia or Sinningia (greenhouse gloxinias) having showy bell-shaped flowers kohleriashrubby herb cultivated for their soft velvety foliage and showy scarlet flowers plectranthusany of various ornamental plants of the genus Plectranthus Anthurium andraeanum, Anthurium scherzerianum, flamingo flower, flamingo plantcommonly cultivated anthurium having bright scarlet spathe and spadix Canterbury bell, Gloxinia perennisherb of Colombia to Peru having pale purple flowers Gloxinia spesiosa, Sinningia speciosa, florist's gloxiniaSouth American herb cultivated in many varieties as a houseplant for its large handsome leaves and large variously colored bell-shaped flowers flora, plant, plant life (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
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