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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/houseplant/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/houseplant/#x1)
- Water the houseplants once a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/houseplant/#x2)
- My houseplant leans towards the light from the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/houseplant/#x3)
- A cactus is an easy houseplant to look after. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/houseplant/#x4)
- Our class has a spider plant as a houseplant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/houseplant/#x5)
- Some houseplants are poisonous to cats. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [A few houseplants do very little to clean the air of a room; opening a window does far more.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/33-the-air-we-breathe/17/)
- [A houseplant should be watered when its soil feels dry, because too much water rots the roots.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/111-chores-and-broken-things/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «houseplant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/houseplant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.