"plant" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Don't stand there like hothouse plants!
- Elspeth had come late to magic and thus undergone a forced-growth process like a hothouse plant.
- She took the book with her, thinking that it might be pleasant to spend some time reading in the conservatory, among the exotic hothouse plants.
- In the humid Philadelphia summers he is like a hothouse plant, in his element.
- Orchids hung down from the trees in profusion, hothouse plants blooming wild: purple, white, pink.
- You'll learn how to be women instead of hothouse plants.
- Was he some hothouse plant grown to prodigious proportions in the company of elderly people, never having seen a person his own age?
- And Mr. Craig, with the wonderful hothouse plant in his button-hole, was staring at her, she knew.
- Popular as a hothouse plant by the 1700s, it was one of the earliest bamboo species introduced into Europe.
- Nor did she want him to grow up as she had grown up: a hothouse plant protected from everything real in life.
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