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spider plant
noun
: a plant that is often grown in people's houses and that has long narrow leaves and stems which produce smaller plants at the end
Full Definition of SPIDER PLANT
: any of several cultivars of a southern African plant (Chlorophytum comosum) of the lily family widely grown as houseplants and having long narrow green leaves usually striped with white or ivory and producing white flowers and tufts of plantlets on long hanging stems
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First Known Use of SPIDER PLANT
1944
Rhymes with SPIDER PLANT
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