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elbow plants

elbow plants is the plural of elbow plant.

Meaning of elbow plant

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

Questions about elbow plants

What is elbow plants the plural of?
Elbow plants is the plural of elbow plant.

Words near elbow plants in the dictionary

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

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