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corn plant

noun

  1. any of several treelike tropical plants of the genus Draecena, especially D. fragrans massangeana, widely cultivated as a houseplant.


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Example Sentences

In the corn plant the starch is stored chiefly in the grain, and not in the subterranean portions, as in the potato.

One boy in a New York State camp did carefully hoe out and pull up every corn plant for a half-day, leaving weeds.

Try to trace a single root of the corn plant from the stalk to its very tip.

Professor Forbes, in his study of the corn plant louse, found that in spring ants mine along the principal roots of the corn.

Whilst this little cob is forming, a bunch, or tassel, of flowers is forming on the top of the corn plant.

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