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nounany of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposestype of:
Definition that contains houseplant
- brake any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
- croton grown in many varieties for their brightly colored foliage; widely cultivated as a houseplant
- oncidium any orchid of the genus Oncidium: characterized by slender branching sprays of small yellow and brown flowers; often grown as houseplants
- aspidistra evergreen perennial with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant
- cyclamen Mediterranean plant widely cultivated as a houseplant for its showy dark green leaves splotched with silver and nodding white or pink to reddish flowers with reflexed petals
- philodendron often grown as a houseplant
- cymbidium any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers; extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers
- aloe vera very short-stemmed plant with thick leaves with soothing mucilaginous juice; leaves develop spiny margins with maturity; native to Mediterranean region; grown widely in tropics and as houseplants
- bar-room plant evergreen perennial with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant
- christmas cactus epiphytic cactus of Brazilian ancestry widely cultivated as a houseplant having jointed flat segments and usually rose-purple flowers that bloom in winter