Meanings
pot plant1
nounpot plant (plural pot plants)
plural pot plants · alternative pot-plant · alternative potplant
- AustraliaNew ZealandUKA plant growing in a flowerpot; a houseplant.
Pot-plants on spindle-legged stands lurked in wait for an incautious gesture.
1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 601 more example
Then there was the sound of transport, too heavy a sound for a private car, and headlights showed up the withered pot-plants in Crabbe's porch.
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 494
pot plant2
Translations
Danish potteplante
- potteplanteplant growing in a flowerpot
Dutch potplant
- potplantplant growing in a flowerpot
Norwegian Bokmål potteplante
- potteplanteplant growing in a flowerpot
Polish roślina doniczkowa
- roślina doniczkowaplant growing in a flowerpot
Welsh blodyn pot
- blodyn potplant growing in a flowerpot
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