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flower-pot

flower-pot is the alternative form of flowerpot.

Meaning of flowerpot

Noun

flowerpot (plural flowerpots)

  1. A pot filled with soil in which plants are grown.
    • 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.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]...

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Forms of flower-pot

pluralflower-pots

Questions about flower-pot

What is flower-pot the alternative form of?
Flower-pot is the alternative form of flowerpot.

Words near flower-pot in the dictionary

  1. flower-gentle
  2. flower-gentles
  3. flower-of-an-hour
  4. flower-petal
  5. flower-petals
  6. flower-pot
  7. flower-potful
  8. flower-pots
  9. flower-smoke
  10. flower-strewn
  11. flower-sweet

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