pot plant

See also: potplant

English

Alternative forms

• pot-plant, potplant

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Noun

pot plant (plural pot plants)

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) A plant growing in a flowerpot; a houseplant.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 494:

     Then there was the sound of transport, too heavy a sound for a private car, and headlights showed up the withered pot-plants in Crabbe's porch.

2. (US) A marijuana plant.

Translations

plant growing in a flowerpot

• Danish: potteplante (da) c
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: potteplante m or f

  Nynorsk: potteplante m or f

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