flowerpot

English

Etymology

From flower +‎ pot.

Pronunciation

Noun

flowerpot (plural flowerpots)

  1. A container in which plants are grown.
    • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter I:
      Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […].

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