Word.ws English Dictionary

elbow plant

elbow plant noun: a shrub, Forestiera pubescens, native to Texas, with twigs that grow perpendicularly to the branches and flowers that resemble forsythia.

Noun

elbow plant (plural elbow plants)

  1. A shrub, Forestiera pubescens, native to Texas, with twigs that grow perpendicularly to the branches and flowers that resemble forsythia.
    • Disreputable-looking umbrella plants, bilious begonias, emaciated geraniums (suffering, as the doctors put it, from "non-nutrition"), accentuated by the hanging-basket of scraggly elbow plant, which will somehow manage to live when it would be a relief to the eye if it were dead. Why, I ask, are...1904, Mrs. I.S. Rhoades, “House Plants in the Home”, in Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society, page 381
  2. A factory that manufactures elbows (curved pipes).
    • This is but machine #1 of our overall plan for our new elbow plant.1988, DE/domestic Engineering - Volume 252, page 104

Forms of elbow plant

pluralelbow plants

Questions about elbow plant

What does elbow plant mean?
Elbow plant means a shrub, Forestiera pubescens, native to Texas, with twigs that grow perpendicularly to the branches and flowers that resemble forsythia.
What part of speech is elbow plant?
Elbow plant is a noun.
What is the plural of elbow plant?
The plural of elbow plant is elbow plants.

Words near elbow plant in the dictionary

  1. elbow macaroni
  2. elbow mentalities
  3. elbow mentality
  4. elbow pit
  5. elbow pits
  6. elbow plant
  7. elbow plants
  8. elbow relation
  9. elbow relations
  10. elbow rim
  11. elbow rims

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: elbow plant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “elbow plant.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/elbow_plant. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.