golden pothos

noun

plural golden pothos

: pothos

Golden pothos is an easy-to-grow houseplant that thrives under neglect. When its trailing limbs become long enough, they can be cut off and set in a jar of water where new roots will form to soon become a new plant to give away.

—John Degroot

Spruce up that filing cabinet or shelf with something petite that trails, such as the golden pothos. … It's also super hardy and if you give it a few hours of sunlight, its leaves will become more variegated with streaks of colour.

—Hannah Stephenson

Examples of golden pothos in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In Kate Damich’s Jackson, Mich., bath, the artist and interior designer layered privy-practical plants: a fiddle leaf fig on the floor, schefflera on the bath shelf and a golden pothos on a plant stand. —Yelena Moroz Alpert, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1900, in the meaning defined above