Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Any plant grown in a pot.
  • noun The pot-tree, or monkey-pot tree. See Lecythis and pot-tree.

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Examples

  • There has been a family of Ashy Tailorbirds and of course, the prolific Yellow-vented Bulbul, which usually chooses a pot-plant on the veranda.

    Birds in the garden Glenda Larke 2010

  • What if they were palming the wine off on the nearest pot-plant in readiness to sneak down the road in the dead of night and do it themselves?

    It's October, 1956. Shelagh Power-Chopra 2010

  • But the drastic spike in Los Angeles County pot-plant seizures has law-enforcement officials trying to figure out what is behind the increase, and whether it represents a real shift in the lucrative pot trade.

    California's New Pot Patch 2010

  • And law-enforcement officials say that pot-plant seizures throughout the country are on the rise with California, as it has in the past, leading the way.

    California's New Pot Patch 2010

  • There has been a family of Ashy Tailorbirds and of course, the prolific Yellow-vented Bulbul, which usually chooses a pot-plant on the veranda.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Glenda Larke 2010

  • And I wondered if, somewhere in the back of the store, lay a bowl of water and a small pot-plant.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • "What I would really like to know is, why would someone put a mirror, a bowl of water, and a pot-plant in a kitchen?"

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • What if they were palming the wine off on the nearest pot-plant in readiness to sneak down the road in the dead of night and do it themselves?

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2005

  • "What I would really like to know is, why would someone put a mirror, a bowl of water, and a pot-plant in a kitchen?"

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • And I wondered if, somewhere in the back of the store, lay a bowl of water and a small pot-plant.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

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