houseplant
- n any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes
- A houseplant, with its microhydraulics, fine-tuned metabolism and dense schematic of nucleic acids, may be more complex than a manufacturing plant.
- As the most important houseplant on earth, it gets, one imagines, special attention, the perquisites of position.
- For the first nine years of Christy's life, his siblings tended him as they would a houseplant: feed it, water it and keep it out of the way.