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window boxes

window boxes is the plural of window box.

Meaning of window box

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.

Questions about window boxes

What is window boxes the plural of?
Window boxes is the plural of window box.

Words near window boxes in the dictionary

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

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