HOUSEPLANT

houseplant

(noun) any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

houseplant (plural houseplants)

A plant that is grown indoors in places such as a house or office for decorative purposes.

A variety of plant that is especially suited to such cultivation, or that is frequently grown in such settings.

Hypernyms

• plant

Anagrams

• sulphonate

Source: Wiktionary



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21 April 2025

ENCYCLOPEDIA

(noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty


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Coffee Trivia

The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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