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flowerpotful

flowerpotful noun: as much as a flowerpot will hold.

Noun

flowerpotful (plural flowerpotfuls or flowerpotsful)

  1. As much as a flowerpot will hold.
    • “Why, lawks, Mrs. Jones!” said a woman of the lower type of lodging-house keeper, as she stood on the gravel walk and spoke to a middle-aged female on the lawn, whose clothes were as gaily coloured as a parrot’s, and who wore a Gampian bonnet trimmed with a flowerpotful of cabbage roses and a plume...1866, Cuthbert Bede [pen name; Edward Bradley], “At the Pavilion”, in Mattins and Mutton’s; or, The Beauty of Brighton. A Love Story., volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, pages 88–89
    • The Prince of Monaco has offered his “Principality” to the Pope as a residence. It is very polite, yet it conveys no great amount of flattery to his Holiness to have this flowerpotful of land placed at his disposal.1866 December 1, Public Opinion: A Comprehensive Summary of the Press Throughout the World on All Important Current Topics, volume X, number 271, London

Examples of flowerpotful in a sentence

  • This can be done by combining a bushel of peat moss, a bushel of vermiculite, one 3-inch flowerpotful of lime, and two 3-inch flowerpotsful of rock phosphate and mixing thoroughly.1983, Geri Harrington, “A Gardener’s Guide and Glossary”, in Cash Crops for the Thrifty Gardener, Perigee Books, published 1984, →ISBN...
  • Mix about a 3½-inch (9 cm) flowerpotful of blood, fish and bone fertiliser with a barrow-load of compost.1988, Geoff Hamilton, The First Time Garden, →ISBN, page 113:

Forms of flowerpotful

pluralflowerpotfuls
pluralflowerpotsful
alternative formflower-potful
alternative form (rare)flowerpot-ful

Origin of flowerpotful

From flowerpot + -ful.

Questions about flowerpotful

What does flowerpotful mean?
Flowerpotful means as much as a flowerpot will hold.
How do you use flowerpotful in a sentence?
This can be done by combining a bushel of peat moss, a bushel of vermiculite, one 3-inch flowerpotful of lime, and two 3-inch flowerpotsful of rock phosphate and mixing thoroughly.
What part of speech is flowerpotful?
Flowerpotful is a noun.
What is the plural of flowerpotful?
The plural of flowerpotful is flowerpotfuls.

Words near flowerpotful in the dictionary

  1. flowerpiercers
  2. flowerpot
  3. flowerpot red
  4. flowerpot reds
  5. flowerpot-ful
  6. flowerpotful
  7. flowerpotfuls
  8. flowerpots
  9. flowerpots-ful
  10. flowerpotsful
  11. flowerprint

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