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indoor garden

indoor garden

3.0
A place inside a house or office where people grow plants for decoration
  • noun
  • /ˈɪnˌdɔr ˈɡɑrdən/
translation icon : jardín interior
  • After reading about the benefits, he decided to start an indoor garden in his living room.

Examples

  • You wonder why we have an indoor garden and no one else does?

    Fiction book (1991)

  • These are generally glass casings like those in indoor gardens, which can allow light to emit into a coated spot.

    Blog text (2)

  • Bundle up and prepare to ooh and aah over a recently discovered intact woolly mammoth found nearby and a café that floats above an indoor garden.

    Blog text (15)

  • Creating an indoor garden can bring life and color to your home, no matter the season.

  • She cultivated a vibrant indoor garden filled with herbs and flowers in her apartment.

Synonyms

hothouse
vsindoor garden
11 4.8

A heated greenhouse for growing tropical and delicate plants

focuses on decorative or recreational plant display rather than heated cultivation
conservatory
vsindoor garden
9 6.0

A glass room attached to a house for growing plants

is inside a building for decoration or recreation rather than in a glass room

How Big

greenhouse
133 2.3
conservatory
9 6.0
indoor garden
3.0
pot plant
  • UK
1 2.8

Surface Forms

indoor garden singular
indoor gardens plural

Morphology

indoor + garden

The meaning 'a garden inside a building' is directly and predictably derived from 'indoor' (inside a structure) modifying 'garden' (a cultivated area). This adjective+noun composition is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.

Etymology

The noun indoor garden gives a clear image: potted plants and flowers kept indoor, that is 'inside a room', as a small garden. That's why it means 'a garden inside a building'.