HOUSEPLANT

 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)

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 (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)