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10 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun evergreen perennial with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant
originEtymology tree taxonomic name Aspidistrabor. English aspidistra Borrowed from taxonomic name Aspidistra, coined by English botanist John Ker Gawler in 1822 from a blend of Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, “shield”) + taxonomic name Tupistra (“a sister genus”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- apiarists 11
- disparts 11
- apiarist 10
- diapirs 10
- dispart 10
- sparids 10
- diarists 9
- rapists 9
- satraps 9
- spirits 9
- adapts 9
- diapir 9