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UK
/ˈæspɪdˌɪstɹɐ/
]
NOUN
- evergreen perennial with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant
How To Use aspidistra In A Sentence
- More than 26,000 people made the trip to inspect the acers and aspidistras at what is fast becoming one of the best, and best-loved, horticultural events in the North of England.
- Gordon marries the mother-to-be of his child, takes the job at the New Albion, where he creates a successful ad campaign for foot deodorant, and even buys an aspidistra, the symbol he had long derided of “mingy lower-middle class decency,” installing it in the front window of their apartment for all the world to see. On being a father
- These were recorded in 1949, and are excellently performed, although, as far as the music goes, they belong next to the potted aspidistra in the front foyer.
- He watched proceedings from the aspidistra side, while they watched from the pillars. Worldshaker
- We do not know what it showed - but something more exciting than two frozenly rigid, ceremonially dressed adults alongside an aspidistra.
- But even a potted aspidistra or two can make difference by oxygenating your workspace, whether you work at home or not. Green Your Home Office | Lifehacker Australia
- If you had to name one item that might symbolise the Victorian drawing room, you might opt for the aspidistra plant, seen in most Victorian households.
- Line vases with aspidistra leaf and focus attention on the flowers by hiding the stems.
- Knocking over two delicate tables and an aspidistra, he covered the floor between them in two strides and pulled Harry into a hug that nearly cracked his newly repaired ribs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Not a few of these are also lilyworts, such as asphodels, fritillarias, day lilies, funkias, or plantain lilies, phormiums, yuccas, and aspidistras.