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# houseplant

noun (a houseplant, houseplants)

«houseplant» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A plant that is grown in a pot indoors, inside a home, office or classroom. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/houseplant/#m1)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/houseplant/#x1)
- Water the houseplants once a week. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/houseplant/#x2)
- My houseplant leans towards the light from the window. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/houseplant/#x3)
- A cactus is an easy houseplant to look after. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/houseplant/#x4)
- Our class has a spider plant as a houseplant. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/houseplant/#x5)
- Some houseplants are poisonous to cats. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/houseplant/#x6)
- The houseplant's leaves went yellow because it had too much water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/houseplant/#x7)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «houseplant» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/houseplant/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«houseplant» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/houseplant.html) on Mova free.