silver dollar plant

noun

variants or less commonly silver dollar

plural silver dollar plants also silver dollars

: money plant sense 1

This year we decided to leave the usual Christmas ornaments in the box and decorate the house solely with cuttings from our winter woods. We spent a lovely morning gathering pine and cedar boughs … and even found some silver dollar plant seed discs to add a silvery shimmer to our nature collection.

—Catherine Cardinal

The flowering plant yields purple blossoms, although the silver dollar is best-known for its large, flat seed pods, which are often dried and sold commercially.

—Nancy O'Donnell

Word History

First Known Use

1924, in the meaning defined above