flowerpot

English

Etymology

From flower + pot.

Pronunciation

Noun

flowerpot (plural flowerpots)

  1. A pot filled with soil in which plants are grown.
    • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:
      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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