elbow plant
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A shrub, Forestiera pubescens, native to Texas, with twigs that grow perpendicularly to the branches and flowers that resemble forsythia.
noun
A factory that manufactures elbows (curved pipes).
Example Sentences
- "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 plants of this description permitted a precarious existence, an offense to the artistic sense, under the name of house plants?"
- "This is but machine #1 of our overall plan for our new elbow plant."