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window box

window box noun: a narrow box filled with earth, placed on a windowsill and used for growing plants.

Noun

window box (plural window boxes)

  1. A narrow box filled with earth, placed on a windowsill and used for growing plants.
    • As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants.2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2020
  2. One of the hollows in the sides of a window frame for the weights which counterbalance a lifting sash.

Synonyms of window box

Forms of window box

pluralwindow boxes
alternative formwindowbox

Questions about window box

What does window box mean?
Window box means a narrow box filled with earth, placed on a windowsill and used for growing plants.
What part of speech is window box?
Window box is a noun.
What is the plural of window box?
The plural of window box is window boxes.

Words near window box in the dictionary

  1. windore
  2. windores
  3. window
  4. window back
  5. window backs
  6. window box
  7. window boxes
  8. window card
  9. window cards
  10. window cleaner
  11. window cleaners

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