flowerpot
Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /ˈflaʊɚˌpɑt/
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈflaʊəˌpɒt/
Noun

flowerpot (plural flowerpots)

  1. A pot#Noun|pot fill#Verb|filled with soil#Noun|soil in which plant#Noun|plants are grown.
    • 1653, William Basse, “Clio, or The First Muse; in 9 Eglogues in Honor of 9 Vertues. As It was in His Dayes Intended. [Munday. Laurinella. Eglogue. Of True and Chast Love.]”, in J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, The Pastorals and Other Workes of William Basse. […] (Miscellaneous Tracts, Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I), [London: s.n.], published 1870, OCLC 1062069941 ↗:
      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.
    • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, “Anarchy”, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384 ↗, page 33 ↗:
      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 from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
Translations
  • French: pot de fleur
  • German: Blumentopf
  • Italian: vaso da fiori
  • Portuguese: vaso de flores
  • Russian: (цвето́чный) горшо́к
  • Spanish: maceta, matero (Venezuela), plantera (Northeastern Argentina), potera (Colombian Atlantic Coast), tiesto (Puerto Rico)



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