[ noun ] evergreen perennial with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant <noun.plant>
aspidistra \aspidistra\ n. 1. 1 an evergreen perennial ({Aspidistra elatio}) with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant.
It may be a well-loved aunt or a semi-recumbent aspidistra.
Who could have foreseen that by 1993 the videocassette, once the wonder of the home-viewing age, would seem as old and demode as Aunt Edith's aspidistra? The new phenomenon is the laser disc.