"elbow plant" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1904, Mrs. I.S. Rhoades, “House Plants in the Home”, in Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society, page 381",
          "text": "Disreputable-looking umbrella plants, bilious begonias, emaciated geraniums (suffering, as the doctors put it, from \"non-nutrition\"), accentuated by the hanging-basket of scraggly elbow plant, which will somehow manage to live when it would be a relief to the eye if it were dead. Why, I ask, are plants of this description permitted a precarious existence, an offense to the artistic sense, under the name of house plants?",
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        "A shrub, Forestiera pubescens, native to Texas, with twigs that grow perpendicularly to the branches and flowers that resemble forsythia."
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          "forsythia",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1988, DE/domestic Engineering - Volume 252, page 104",
          "text": "This is but machine #1 of our overall plan for our new elbow plant.",
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        "A factory that manufactures elbows (curved pipes)."
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          "text": "Disreputable-looking umbrella plants, bilious begonias, emaciated geraniums (suffering, as the doctors put it, from \"non-nutrition\"), accentuated by the hanging-basket of scraggly elbow plant, which will somehow manage to live when it would be a relief to the eye if it were dead. Why, I ask, are plants of this description permitted a precarious existence, an offense to the artistic sense, under the name of house plants?",
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        "A factory that manufactures elbows (curved pipes)."
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