houseplant

«houseplant» in Mova's school dictionary: grown in a pot indoors, inside a home, office or classroom — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a houseplant, houseplants)

meaning for a pupil

A plant that is grown in a pot indoors, inside a home, office or classroom. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons houseplants are used to study how plants need light, water and air; some children grow cress, spider plants or cacti on the windowsill. Safety: some houseplants are poisonous to pets and small children if eaten.

examples

• We have a houseplant on every windowsill. tree →
• Water the houseplants once a week. tree →
• My houseplant leans towards the light from the window. tree →
• A cactus is an easy houseplant to look after. tree →
• Our class has a spider plant as a houseplant. tree →
• Some houseplants are poisonous to cats. tree →
• The houseplant's leaves went yellow because it had too much water. tree →

note

Countable: a houseplant, houseplants. Can also be written «house plant». Plants indoors still need light; a plant kept in the dark grows pale and weak. Too much water can kill a houseplant as surely as too little.

In the corpora

• A few houseplants do very little to clean the air of a room; opening a window does far more.
• A houseplant should be watered when its soil feels dry, because too much water rots the roots.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «houseplant» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.