aspidistra

[US]/ˌæspɪ'dɪstrə/
[UK]/ˌæspɪ'dɪstrə/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a plant of the genus Aspidistra, also known as the cast-iron plant or bar-room plant
Word Forms

Real-world Examples

You'd better go back to the aspidistra and wait for me.

Source: One Shilling Candle (Part Two)

When Orwell received news that Keep the Aspidistra Flying had been published, he was already transforming the diary of his northern journey into a novel that would become The Road to Wigan Pier.

Source: Character Profile

She had always " porch plants" about, grown from slips, of geranium and aspidistra; fuchsia, " the Georgia flower, " sansivaria and elephant-ear and impatient Sultana, all blooming lushly in containers of old tin.

Source: Cross Stream (Part 1)

For most of the fifteen months he spent at the bookshop, Orwell worked on Keep the Aspidistra Flying, a novel about a poet who struggles to gain recognition from a literary elite that is mostly closed to him.

Source: Character Profile

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