Flowerpot
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈflaʊɚˌpɑt/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Flowerpot is a noun meaning A pot filled with soil in which plants are grown.
Meaning
A pot filled with soil in which plants are grown.
Example Sentences
As a multifaceted kitchen enabler, nothing can quite supplant the gorgeous, timeless, ever-available, often dirt-cheap terra-cotta flowerpot.
I hope you will think kindly of my whitened bones, and never have anything more to do with Greek writing on flower-pots, sir, if I may make so bold as to say so.
O Laurinella! little doſt thou wot How fraile a flower thou doſt ſo highly prize: Beauty's the flower, but love the flower-pot That muſt preſerve it, els it quickly dyes.
Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
Word Forms
- flowerpots
- flower pot
- flower-pot
Synonyms for flowerpot
Depending on context, synonyms include pot.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pot, jar, can, rootery, growery, pitcher.
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