ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

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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