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Snake destroyed diarist's plant
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aspidistra
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A single aspidistra gleamed in one corner in a lime-green ceramic pot. ▪ By the twenties, lace curtains and an aspidistra in the window were bad omens. ▪ This was quite high, about four feet from the floor with a very wide sill ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Aspidistra is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae , subfamily Nolinoideae , native to eastern and southeastern Asia, particularly China and Vietnam . They grow in shade under trees and shrubs. Their leaves arise more or less directly ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. any of several Asian plants, of the genus ''Aspidistra'', having large leaves and small bell-shaped flowers; widely cultivated as a houseplant
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
aspidistra \aspidistra\ n. 1. 1 an evergreen perennial ( Aspidistra elatio ) with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant. Syn: cast-iron plant, bar-room plant
Usage examples of aspidistra.
Mr Puffett, who all this time had remained discreetly withdrawn and was, at the moment, assisting Crutchley to sponge the aspidistra leaves, looked up, and joined in the melody with a powerful roar.
You blasphemed the aspidistra and something awful has come down that chimney!
She selected the largest aspidistra and kissed one of its impassive shining surfaces.
In the corner was a big cracked Chinese pot containing an aspidistra plant.
A discouraged aspidistra stood in a tarnished brass pot near the unused counter.
The little concierge stepped from behind an enormous potted aspidistra and coughed softly into his fist.
Mr Mack narrowed his eyes, then let the fronds of the aspidistra fall back in place.
With a kind of tolerant pity, she lifted the aspidistras from their containing pots and gathered them into a melancholy little group on the floor, together with a repellent little cactus like an over-stuffed pincushion and a young rubber-plant.
This air is enhanced by the presence of five aspidistras, placed in a row on the top of the bunting, which has been stretched across the top, over the opening and the turned-back lid, tightly fixed to the edges with drawing pins, and allowed to fall in artistic festoons down the sides and in a sort of valance-like effect across the front.
The picture was framed in aspidistras like a nightmarish valentine and across the lower margin was the top of a piano.
By this time the piano was in position with the drapery and aspidistras on top.
When the chauffeur had gone, Georgie re-pinned the bunting over the open top of the piano, replaced the aspidistras and decamped.
His publications include Down and Out in Paris and London, Burmese Days, The Road to Wigan Pier, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Homage to Catalonia, and Inside the Whale.
There were aspidistras like small trees and portraits hung on brass rails along the corridors which the lift raised us to.
Mister Snaith's communions with the spirits had the timelessness of any good theatrical performance – and that power seemed to follow me even as I picked my way around the aspidistras towards the stairs.