Lexic.us

Definition of Snake plant

1. Noun. Stemless plant having narrow rigid leaves often cultivated as a houseplant.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Snake Plant

Literary usage of Snake plant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chambers' Edinburgh Journal by Robert Chambers, William Chambers (1851)
"THE SNAKE-PLANT OF SOUTH AMERICA. VENOMOUS serpents abound in all the ... de guaco or snake-plant. These he placed in a bowl, having first crushed them ..."

2. Travels in Canada, and Through the States of New York and Pennsylvania by Johann Georg Kohl (1861)
"The Pennsylvanian-Germans still point out the snake- plant of the Indians, and make use of it, for on the heights of the Blue Mountains there are still ..."

3. Travels in Canada, and Through the States of New York and Pennsylvania by Johann Georg Kohl (1861)
"The Pennsylvanian-Germans still point out the snake- plant of the Indians, and make use of it, for on the heights of the Blue Mountains there are still ..."

4. American Eclectic Medical Review (1870)
"WE copy from an exchange the following highly-drawn account of the Mexican Snake Plant: The plant is one of the most wonderful of nature's productions. ..."

5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural TasteGardening (1852)
"THE snake plant OF SOUTH AMERICA.— Venomous serpents abound in all the tierras i calientes (hot lands) of America. The frequent fatality following their ..."

6. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1907)
"A. Dracunculus (Dragons, snake plant), from South Europe, attains a height of 2 to 3 ft. ; the leaves large ; the stalks and stem of a ..."

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