houseplant vs velvet plant

velvet plant vs houseplant

houseplant and velvet plant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
houseplant	Yes	No	No	No
velvet plant	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, velvet plant is a hyponym of houseplant; that is, velvet plant is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than houseplant:

houseplant: any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes
velvet plant: Javanese foliage plant grown for their handsome velvety leaves with violet-purple hairs

Other hyponyms of houseplant include Aglaonema modestum, Chinese evergreen, Japanese leaf, anthurium, tail-flower, tailflower, blood berry, bloodberry, Rivina humilis, rouge plant, rougeberry, Gynura aurantiaca, purple velvet plant, royal velvet plant, Exacum affine, Persian violet, episcia, gloxinia, kohleria, plectranthus.

houseplant (noun)	velvet plant (noun)
any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes	Javanese foliage plant grown for their handsome velvety leaves with violet-purple hairs
	any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers

Difference between houseplant and velvet plant

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