0 a large evergreen plant (= one that never loses its leaves), usually grown inside, that has purple flowers shaped like bells and long, strong leaves
They are a genteel type of folk, and many of them are living at this moment in their genteel poverty behind the old aspidistra plant.
Now we have got, if we did not know it before, an expert on aspidistras.
Finally, the time has come to remove the aspidistras and the odour of mothballs from the negotiating chambers.
All they want is an aspidistra in the window.
It is no good doing it for once and then slackening off, because forms grow even faster than aspidistras.
One cannot, by means of a statute or even an enormous schedule setting out typewriters and aspidistras, try to legislate between the parties.
It will now be a section 1 criminal offence to have a shell case in which one is growing an aspidistra.
The aspidistra used to be a very strong convention.
