A plant of the lily family which has long, narrow leaves with a central yellow stripe, native to southern Africa and popular as a houseplant.
Chlorophytum comosum, family Liliaceae
Example sentencesExamples
- A towel rack hung on the shower door, and a spider plant trailed its long white-green tendrils across the counter.
- It was overflowing with hanging spider plants and overripe ferns.
- Chelsea plays with the tip of a spider plant, flicking it with her fingers.
- Andrea also uses this trick on her hanging spider plant.
- It will be plants which are good at recycling carbon dioxide like spider plants.