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Aspidistra

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Noun

1. aspidistra, aspidistra elatio, bar-room plant, cast-iron plant

evergreen perennial with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Aspidistra

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noun
any Asian plant of the liliaceous genus Aspidistra, esp A. lurida, a popular house plant with long tough evergreen leaves and purplish flowers borne on the ground

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Aspidistra

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noun
any of a genus (Aspidistra) of plants of the lily family, with dark, inconspicuous flowers and stiff, glossy, evergreen leaves: cultivated as a house plant

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Aspidistra

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n.
Any of various eastern Asian plants of the genus Aspidistra, especially A. elatior, which has large evergreen basal leaves and small, brownish bell-shaped flowers and is widely cultivated as a houseplant. Also called cast-iron plant.

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