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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
flowerpot
noun
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▪ Although growing well under water, they adapt to normal soil conditions and can be cultivated in flowerpots as indoor plants.
▪ In the harsh air she poked around in the flowerpots and bushes by the front door.
▪ It had shutters and a flowerpot on a fake sill painted right on it.
▪ Perhaps you should conceal some small flowerpots under the wood.
▪ Place a large coffee filter in the bottom of flowerpot before adding soil.
▪ So letters were left under large stones, wedged firmly in flowerpots or slipped under the door.
▪ The key, here, was not kept under a flowerpot or stone but in a more foolproof and elaborate hiding-place.
▪ These pieces can also be cultivated in flowerpots where they develop very well if lighted properly.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flowerpot

Flowerpot \Flow"er*pot`\, n. A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.

Wiktionary
flowerpot

n. A container in which plants are grown.

WordNet
flowerpot

n. a container in which plants are cultivated [syn: pot]

Wikipedia
Flowerpot

A flowerpot, flower pot, or plant pot is a container in which flowers and other plants are cultivated and displayed. Historically, and still to a significant extent today, they are made from terracotta. Flowerpots are now often also made from plastic, wood, stone, or sometimes biodegradable material. An example of biodegradable pots are the so-called "Jiffy" pots. There are often holes in the bottom, to allow excess water to flow out, sometimes to a saucer that is placed under the flowerpot. The plant can use this water with its roots, as needed. Recently, some flowerpots have been made with an automatic watering system, using a reservoir.

Flowerpot (disambiguation)

A flowerpot is a container in which flowers and other plants are cultivated and displayed.

Flowerpot or flower pot may also refer to:

  • Flowerpot Bay, Chatham Islands, New Zealand
  • Flowerpot Island, Ontario, Canada
  • Flowerpot Men (disambiguation)
  • Flowerpot parasol, a species of gilled mushroom ( Leucocoprinus birnbaumii)
  • Flowerpot Snake, a blind snake species found in Africa and Asia ( Ramphotyphlops braminus)
  • Flowerpot technique, used in sleep deprivation studies

Usage examples of "flowerpot".

Gilwyn past the flowerpots flanking the threshold and into her modest home.

Whenever they transferred seedlings from table beds into small flowerpots, they always ran into a slew of black widows nesting in the little stacked flowerpots that were kept in a dark shed beside the greenhouse.

Genius always suffers, for it is an acorn planted in a flowerpot - a disproportion, without the strength to carry it.

With incredulity, Julie contemplated it to try to dig the congealed Earth of the flowerpot.

One of the coffee can flowerpots had the instructions for taking care of the seed planted inside, decoupaged to the outside.

The room beyond was cluttered with flowerpots, half-dead blooms and cuttings, seed troughs, cloudy bottles and green demijohns and what looked and smelled like a small sack of dray manure, although, at least in the piled desk and sagging chairs, the place also gave the impression of a kind of office.

Budapest showed itself in jumbled buildings of pale stone, elaborately iced like birthday cakes, carved into ornamental lintels and cornices, quaintly cobbled streets, wrought-iron balconies with flowerpots, coffeehouses illuminated by elaborate chandeliers whose lemon light revealed ruddy wood-paneled walls, brilliant splashes of glass, stained, etched into fin de siecle patterns.

Windows had been broken, lamps and magazines and flowerpots flung together in a heap of pottery shards and water and paper pulp.

Evidently the thief had slipped the iron pintels off a garden shed, probably where he'd found the flowerpots.

Forgetful of all save his vassal's plain fealty to the ethnarch Humphrey or Harold stayed not to yoke or saddle but stumbled out hotface as he was (his sweatful bandanna loose from his pocketcoat) hasting to the forecourts of his public in topee, surcingle, solascarf and plaid, plus fours, puttees and bulldog boots ruddled cinnabar with flagrant marl, jingling his turnpike keys and bearing aloft amid the fixed pikes of the hunting party a high perch atop of which a flowerpot was fixed earthside hoist with care.

Sooty, Tony Hancock, Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men, Marmite, skiffle music, that Morecambe and Wise segment in which Angela Rippon shows off her legs by dancing, Gracie Fields singing 'Sally', George Formby doing anything, Dixon of Dock Green, HP sauce, salt cellars with a single large hole, travelling funfairs, making sandwiches from bread you've sliced yourself, really milky tea, allotments, the belief that household wiring is an interesting topic for conversation, steam trains, toast made under a gas grill, thinking that going to choose wallpaper with your mate constitutes a reasonably good day out, wine made out of something other than grapes, unheated bedrooms and bathrooms, seaside rock, erecting windbreaks on a beach (why, pray, are you there if you need a windbreak?

Sooty, Tony Hancock, Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men, Marmite, skiffle music, that Morecambe and Wise segment in which Angela Rippon shows off her legs by dancing, Gracie Fields singing 'Sally', George Formby doing anything, Dixon of Dock Green, HP sauce, salt cellars with a single large hole, travelling funfairs, making sandwiches from bread you've sliced yourself, really milky tea, allotments, the belief that household wiring is an interesting topic for conversation, steam trains, toast made under a gas grill, thinking that going to choose wallpaper with your mate constitutes a reasonably good day out, wine made out of something other than grapes, unheated bedrooms and bathrooms, seaside rock, erecting windbreaks on a beach (why, pray, are you there if you need a .